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Thread #42222   Message #627227
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
13-Jan-02 - 03:41 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT
1837)   JANIE ON THE MOOR  Another text from W. Roy Mackenzie's Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia, in which no tune was included.  The song is known under a variety of names -and with a variety of tunes- in Britain, Ireland, Canada and the USA, but another Nova Scotia version would seem to be the best option.  There's one in Helen Creighton's Maritime Folk Songs (1962) which was noted from Nathan Hatt of Middle River, Nova Scotia, in 1952.  His text was less complete than Mrs. Campbell's, but the match to the melody is reasonable (one note had to be split into two, but that's all), so I've gone for it.  The usual warning: there is no evidence that this tune, or one like it, was ever used for this particular set of the song, but it was used for a similar variant in the same region, which will serve until somebody comes up with a better match.