Mudcat Café message #1237428

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Thread #9564 Message #1237428
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter at work
30-Jul-04 - 05:54 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Twa Corbies / Three Ravens (Child #26)
Subject: RE: Twa corbies on a tree. Words??

Cool, but perhaps not as cool as Steeleye Span's version on "Hark the Village Wait" (1970). I think the ballad was first recorded to this (Breton)tune by Jean Redpath on her "Scottish Ballad Book," ca.1963.