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GUEST,Nick Dow Folk song collecting. Good or bad? (113* d) RE: Folk song collecting. Good or bad? 05 Sep 24

Yes now we're in agreement about rubbish. (The book that is not the song) The same thing in reverse has happened when I was compiling Secret Stream Volume 2. The Gypsy folk sing a song called 'Jimmy Doyle the Poacher' with a chorus (Ran tan diddle ay dan Jimmy Doyle the poacher) The original song was Canadian with a few different words and no chorus, my publisher contacted the owners and they wanted an obscene amount of money to include it in the book. Result is a song with a place in the Gypsy song tradition was not included. A folklorists lot is not a happy one.

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