sorry folks - I warned you I was thick! Have just seen the words for The Nightingale - can't think how I managed to miss them before. I am pretty sure the song I am familiar with is the tune offered on the Mudcat Midi with these words. I will get a version of what's sung locally tho'. I know the principal singer in these melees is following a tradition which is as much 'midlands' as Northamptonshire, as the village is close to the joining point of Nortants, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire.
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