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Thread #64970 Message #1066330
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
05-Dec-03 - 05:56 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Little Jim
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Little Jim
I haven't seen the Riddle set either, but Roud lists it (on its own) at number 3522; the first line is The night was dark and stormy, so it's likely enough a shortened form of the broadside song. According to Edith Fowke ("Old Favourites": A Selective Index in The Canadian Journal for Traditional Music, Volume 7, 1979) the song appeared in the "Old Favourites" section of the Family Herald and Weekly Star (Montreal) on the following dates:
22/12/1915; 14/7/1926; 23/10/1935; 26/1/1944; 22/10/1947
This under yet another title, The Collier's Dying Child.