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Posted By: GUEST,Murray on Saltspring
23-Mar-02 - 02:36 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: I put me hands upon her calves
Subject: RE: Help: I put me hands upon her calves

I don't know about Matthew the Miller, but it's a version of "Gently Johnny my Jingalo", in the Cecil Sharp collection [printed in Reeves Idiom of the People, 113. But the verse quoted isn't in there.