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Thread #64647 Message #1058647
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
21-Nov-03 - 02:04 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Tam Lin (Ewan MacColl)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ewan MacColl' s Tam Lin

MacColl may have got his tune (which I have not heard) from the Burns set (Scots Musical Museum, V, 1796, no.411, 423, Child's A text) but that was not the source of the text quoted above.