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Thread #9564 Message #1238168
Posted By: Roberto
01-Aug-04 - 03:34 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Twa Corbies / Three Ravens (Child #26)
Subject: RE: Twa corbies on a tree. Words??
The sources for the recordings taken from THE LONG HARVEST:
The Three Ravens (#26) (Ia) (Ewan MacColl): THE THREE RAVENS: printed in Thomas Ravenscroft's MELIS- MATA, 1611 The Three Ravens (#26) (Ib) (Ed McCurdy) The Three Ravens (#26) (Ic) (Ewan MacColl): THE THREE RAVENS: from the singing of John Holmes, Round- hay, Derbyshire. Printed in BIB 51, p. 17 The Three Ravens (#26) (IIa: The Crow Song) (Peggy Seeger): THE CROW SONG : from the singing of Iris M. McCIure, Morgans- town, West Virginia. Printed in BIB 45, pp. 13-14 The Three Ravens (#26) (IIb: Crow Song) (Ed McCurdy) The Three Ravens (#26) (IIc: The Three Crows) (Peggy Seeger): THE THREE CROWS: from the singing of Fred Terry, Joplin, Missouri. Printed in BIB 33, Vol. I, p. 75 The Three Ravens (#26) (IId: The Three Ravens) (Peggy Seeger): THE THREE RAVENS : from the singing of Mrs Mary MacAllister, Grottoes, Virginia. From the Wilkinson MSS, 1935-6. Printed in BIB 5, version 13 The Three Ravens (#26) (IIe: Poor Old Crow) (Peggy Seeger): POOR OLD CROW: from the singing of Ben Burgess, Charlottes- ville, Va., 1916. From the Sharpe MSS, printed in BIB 5, version 16 The Three Ravens (#26) (IIf: Blow The Man Down) (Ewan MacColl): BLOW THE MAN DOWN: from the singing of Les Nickerson, Nova Scotia. Published in BIB 46, p. 21 The Three Ravens (#26) (IIIa: The Twa Corbies) (Ewan MacColl): THE TWA CORBIES: Eyre-Todd. Text, Scott's MINSTRELSY, 1803 The Three Ravens (#26) (IIIb: The Twa Corbies) (Ray Fisher) The Three Ravens (#26) (IIIc: The Two Ravens) (Robin & Barry Dransfield)