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Thread #41241   Message #594910
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
17-Nov-01 - 10:07 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Add: Miner Lad
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Add: Miner Lad
Six Jolly Miners was a very common song in England and Scotland, both in tradition and on broadsides; it also turned up occasionally in the North of Ireland and, of course, in the New World.  Steve Roud's Folksong Index makes a distinction between that song and the Miner Lad; they clearly share some verses, but are different enough to be considered to be separate, though related.

I suspect that the set Snuffy posted is from the NE of England, though Scotticised to an extent by the Campbells, but I could easily be wrong; the only published version I'm aware of (with that first line) appeared in Gwen & Mary Polwarth's Folk Songs from the North (1970), which I haven't seen.