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GUEST,Jerome Clark | Origins: Percy's Song (Bob Dylan) (17) | RE: Origins: Percy's Song (Bob Dylan) | 07 Nov 23 |
The Percy in "Percy's Song" was almost certainly Bishop Thomas Percy 1729-1811), the great ballad collector who influenced Prof. Francis James Child in the second half of the 19th century. I suspect it was Dylan's winking acknowledgement of his debt to "Two Sisters." |