The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #66885   Message #1113654
Posted By: Lighter
10-Feb-04 - 07:23 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Bold Jack Donohue
Subject: RE: DTStudy: Bold Jack Donohue
Neither Lomax 1910 or 1938 offer a tune for this song. Tune and text in Alan Lomax's "Folk Songs of North America" are stated to be from W. Roy MacKenzie's "Ballads and Sea Songs of Nova Scotia" (1928). That tune - pretty much the one used by Lou Killen - is not much like the MIDI.