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Thread #83878 Message #1544538
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
18-Aug-05 - 12:13 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Mattie Groves - What year?
Subject: RE: Mattie Groves - What year?
The version found in Canada, "Lord Banner" ("and young Magrue from Scotland too") is more interesting. In that song, Lord Banner has gone to fair England "to take King Henry's throne. Now an attempt to take the throne was certainly newsworthy, and would be meat for Wackipedia.
A version collected by Sharp (Lady Banner and little MacGroves involved here) has Lord Banner "Redemption gone, he's on Queen Anne's throne." That shifts the date a bit.