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Sandy Paton Penguin: The Grey Cock (24) RE: Penguin: The Grey Cock 20 Feb 00

I collected a version of this ballad from Hattie Presnell of Beech Mountain, North Carolina. It's on The Traditional Music of Beech Mountain, NC, Volume 1, Folk-Legacy C-22. Hattie called it "Pretty Crowing Chicken," and it's very clearly a revenant ballad. The final verse reads:

My old true love, my sweet turtle dove,
When will I see you again?
When the sun and the moon meet in yonder glen,
And the sky it shall shed no more rain, rain, rain,
And the sky it shall shed no more rain.

Sandy

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