Hi Joe!

I cruise Mudcat once a week or so but I've been too busy to do much else. I have a seaquel to Irish Ballads & Songs of the Sea in the works. The Lomaxes wrote in a book published in 1934 that "Mike" is from the Belden Collection, Harvard University. The Belden book was published in 1940. My guess is that "Mike" is in Belden manuscripts at Harvard and, for some unknown reason, was left out of the 1940 book. If that is not correct, it is at least plausible.

No tune, therefore I had to make one. I know of no recordings other than the one by Deirdre and the other Girls. Henry Belden was a professor of English and concerned with texts rather than melodies.

Hope all is well with you and yours,
Dan

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Peter,

I'm starting an MA program in September and I'd like to finish it in a year if humanly possible. I don't expect to be out and about much. But it would be nice to get together of course.

All the best,
Dan