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happy? - Apr 14 ('49 wrecks / Roxburghe)
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Subject: happy? - Apr 14 ('49 wrecks / Roxburghe) From: Abby Sale Date: 14 Apr 06 - 10:48 AM Well, I'll sing you a song 'bout the old Forty Nine, ALSO: At an auction on 4/14/1788, John, Duke of Roxburghe bought the collection of hundreds of black letter ballads that came to be called The Roxburghe Ballads. The collection, begun about 1690 by Robert Harley, was of broadsides often well over 100 years old already. By the 1870s it had grown to some 1500 songs. The study of these and other broadsides helped expell the myth that folksongs magically appeared without author or origin. This series of the Happy File ends tomorrow. Copyright © 2005, Abby Sale - all rights reserved What are Happy's all about? See Clicky |
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