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Dave Rado	Tune Req: Trad. English tune for Little Musgrave? (76* d)	RE: Tune Req: Trad. English tune for Little Musgrave?	25 May 21
Very interesting discussion, many thanks. Regarding Brian Peters' comment that: The same tune crops up for #81 in the recently-published 1909 collection of the Kentucky ballad collector Katherine Jackson French. However, it's pretty obvious that she copied it from Chappell and grafted on the text of a Kentucky version collected by Olive Dame Campbell - something the editor doesn't seem to have spotted. There is a version of Little Musgrave (not Matty Groves although it's American), sung by Jean Ritchie, who came from Kentucky - and the tune she sang it to sounds to me as if it was based loosely on the Motherwell/Chappell/Rimbault tune, although it's very different from it - there's a youtube recording here. Do others hear a simiilarity between her tune and the British one? Dave

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