Right E Grundy. Wait till I get an opportunity to slate your trashy C&W. If I could be arsed to review it, that is.

As for June Tabor, she was talking to me about Scottish history and balladry in the VWML. Some cloth-eared Scot called Campin seems to have been eavesdropping in a highly inattentive way and is trying to make out that we talked about rubbishy kids' street songs and the not particularly very funny "comic" output of Adam McNaughtan. This was absolutely not the case. This Scot obviously has some problem with June Tabor's work. Be that as it may, it has no place in a thread in which the OP is merely requesting the origins of Roses for Prince Charlie. Which was done and dusted long ago. A banal Corries copy not worth the time spent on it.

Furthermore, I mentioned that my information came from Ms Tabor (and not from some highly biased, hap't in romanticism Scot) because she had, at the time, recently graduated in history and was thus an impeccable source.