The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #42222   Message #615861
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
24-Dec-01 - 01:19 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT
I forgot that there was a new thread, and posted some more additions to the old one:  Factor's Song/ Jenny Jenkins/ Present from the Gentlemen.

935)   THE DREADFUL GHOST  The DT text was transcribed from a record by John Roberts and Tony Barrand, the sleevenotes to which (available on the web) state Our version is Canadian, collected by Helen Creighton in the Maritimes, collated with Peacock's Newfoundland texts.  Creighton in fact published several sets of this song, but so far as I can tell, the only one where she is credited as sole collector is that recorded from Philip Warner of West Petpeswick, in 1951, which at any rate starts out the same as the Roberts/ Barrand collation, which I haven't heard.  Midi made, therefore, from notation of that set in Creighton's Maritime Folk Songs (1962).  It might be useful if the quote from Roberts and Barrand were included in the DT file, as at present the implication is that this is a traditional set of words, which is not the case.