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Richard Mellish	Origins: Died for Love: Sources and variants (125* d)	RE: Origins: Died for Love: Sources and variants	25 Dec 16
> This is what Cox stated in his 1925 Folk-Songs of the South: "The Butcher Boy" is made up of modified extracts from (1) "Sheffield Park"; (etc) It seems to me that all of these songs are mix-and-match combinations of a whole load of floating elements, including some narrative ones (such as the courtship, and the father finding the girl hanging) and others with no narrative aspect (such as "There is a bird ...").

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