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Thread #66062 Message #1094557
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
16-Jan-04 - 07:48 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Aye Waukin' O
Subject: RE: Origins: Aye waukin' o
Perhaps we should quote the details Bruce gave for Harry Newall:
"Irish?: A New Song, Called Harry Newell. Eight verse broadside, c 1800-30? No music or tune citation. Printed in Holloway and Black's Later English Broadside Ballads, I, #88, 1975."
See also these broadside copies of another form of the song (also quoted by Bruce) at Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads:
Fancy lad