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GUEST,Tao Hinton Origin: Singer's Request / Minstrel's Request (24) RE: Origin: Singer's Request / Minstrel's Request 05 Oct 13

As Phil Edwards said, the text for the song came from Scott's 300+ page poem Rokeby, published in 1813 as part of "The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott". The full text can be found here. The poem/song is found on pages 206-208.

Regarding the music, I'm interested in if anyone knows whether Nic Jones' melody is based on something traditional (and if so from what source) or is purely his own creation. Any other info regarding traditional/older melodies these words have been set to would also be of interest. When I first heard the song I thought it must be an old English song (given Nic's involvement with such music) but clearly the words at least are Scots. A beautiful song either way!

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