The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #39035   Message #552103
Posted By: bill\sables
17-Sep-01 - 07:01 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Recruited Collier
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Recruited Collier
According to Bert Lloyd the text came from J.T.Huxtable from Workington Cumberland. It appears in R. Anderson's "Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect" (Wigton 1808). Lloyd also states in "Come All Ye Bold Miners" that the usual tune was fitted by himself. Lloyd also omits the first four lines of your last verse.
Bil