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Thread #66674   Message #1108611
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
03-Feb-04 - 07:02 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Footboy (Canadian ballad)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The footboy (Canadian ballad)
Roud lists this at number 3580, with only one example other than Emerson Woodcock's; a song called The Little Penknife, beginning "It was in Armagh near the County Clare" and recorded by James Foley from John Corry, Castlederg, Co. Tyrone, 1985/6 and issued by the Arts Council of N. Ireland (Harvest Home No.1). Hard to tell much from that, but a set of recordings of Corry, including that one, can be had from Peter Kennedy: http://www.folktrax.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/menus/cassprogs/178corry.htm. Kennedy also groups The Footboy and The Little Penknife, but then, he also includes O mother O mother come make my bed, which is a completely different song, so that's not much help.