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GUEST,Masato	Origins: riddle song (I Gave My Love a Cherry) (67* d)	RE: riddle song	09 Aug 03
A Scottish version is quoted in William Dauney's Ancient Scot[t]ish Melodies (1838; AMS, 1973, pp. 180-81, footnote b; without music): A friend of ours mentions the following fragment of a song which used to be sung to a very aged relative of his when a child:-- "I have a true love beyond the sea, Para mee dicksa do mee nee; And mony a love-token he sends to me, With a rattum, pattum, Para mee dicksa do mee nee." The "para me, dixi, Domine," is an obvious adaptation of a part of the service; and we have no doubt that other relics of the same sort could be pointed out.

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