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GUEST,merdekaorang1125 Lyr Req: Stranger to this country (29) RE: Lyr Req: Stranger to this country 29 Sep 04


'Far From My Home' is sung by the Portway Peddlars (Len & Barbara Berry), on their LP 'Down the Green Groves'and in the accompanying booklet Barbara lists it as an Alfred Williams colection with a cat no OX259 and as collected from John Flux of Filkins and Frank Cook of Burford, both in Oxfordshire and not far apart. AW does not show it in his book 'Folk Songs of the Upper Thames' under any of the titles I've tried, including 'The Boys from Kilkenny' which I believe may be a similar song. The tune the Pedlars use is credited as coming from the singing of Graham Metcalf (a Yorkshireman resident in Oxford, England), but I don't know if he composed the tune or adapted it from elsewhere.


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