1048)   FACTOR'S SONG  This appears in Vermont Folksongs and Ballads (Helen Hartness Flanders and George Brown, 1931) with the following note:

"Recorded by Mr. Brown, September 13, 1930, in Manchester, Vermont, from the singing of Mr. Sharon Harrington as learned from his mother, Rebecca Smith Harrington."

Midi made from the notation in that book.

1845)   JENNY JENKINS  A song quite widespread in America, though I have a vague idea that it's originally Scottish.  The text in the DT was taken from a record by Margaret MacArthur rather than from her source, the Flanders/Brown book, in which the tune is given with the following note:

"Recorded by Mrs. Alice Brown, July 24, 1930, in Bethel, Vermont, from the singing of Mrs. Susan Chase, as learned from her aunt when a little girl.  The village of Bethel promised much at a casual glance, but yielded nothing until Mrs. Chase sang a snatch of this old song to the collector who sat upon a doorstep in the village street and gratefully wrote it down; it was all Mrs. Chase could recall of the song."

The editors go on to discuss colour symbolism and the use of the song in children's games.  They then give a text from the original Green Mountain Songster (1823); Ms. MacArthur has added bits of this to Mrs. Chase's single verse in order to make a "full" set; unfortunately, the older text is too long for the tune, so the result is -on paper- an uneasy compromise with most of the chorus omitted and oh narrow, narrow substituted throughout for the Onere, Onere of the earlier set.  I expect it works fine when sung, but the DT note is misleading in that it implies that the text is authentic whereas it's actually a modern collation.  Midi made from the notation of Mrs. Chase's singing.

2813)   A PRESENT FROM THE GENTLEMEN  This poem by Rudyard Kipling is, inexcusably, not credited to its author in the DT file.  It is correctly called A Smuggler's Song, and appeared in Puck of Pook's Hill.  In verse 1, line 4 should begin So watch... In verse 2, line 1, woodlands should be woodlumps; in line 4, brushwood should be brishwood.  Strictly, use 'em for your play should be take 'em for your play, but this appears to be an alteration made by Peter Bellamy, who set the poem to music.

Midi made from notation of Bellamy's music as given in The Song and the Story (Isla St Clair and David Turnbull, 1981).