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Thread #40514   Message #580774
Posted By: masato sakurai
27-Oct-01 - 01:00 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Round - Come Follow Me
Subject: RE: Help! PartII - Folk songs info needed!
I forgot to mention that the first verse of #1 by J. Hilton (1652) is different. Who changed it to the greenwood song when, I don't know.

Come follow, follow, follow, follow, follow, follow mee;
whither shall I follow, follow, follow, whither shall I follow, follow thee?
to the Gallow, gallow, gallow, to the gallow, gallow treee.

The Hilton version is also in Rosemary Cass-Beggs, The Penguin Book of Rounds (Penguin Books, 1982), p. 61 [no. 88].

~Masato