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Thread #64310 Message #1051043
Posted By: GUEST,MMario
10-Nov-03 - 09:29 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Robin Hood and the Fifteen Foresters
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: John Goodluck's Robin Hood and the Fifte
Bronson has the following text in 'The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads"
Source:Creighton (1933) As Sung by Ben Henneberry
Robin Hood he bent his noble good bow And his broad arrow let fly, Till fourteen of those fifteen foresters Dead on the Ground did lie.
hi down, hi derrry derry down
Ten men they came from brave Nottingame To take up Robin Hood, Some lost arms and some lost legs And more they lost their blood.
hi down, hi derrry derry down
Ten men they came from brave Nottingham To Take up robin Hood, but he picked up his noble good bow And he's off the the merry Greenwood,