The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #84022   Message #1548620
Posted By: Matthew Edwards
24-Aug-05 - 11:20 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Mallard
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: THE MALLARD
The reference to 1889 in the Traditional Ballads Index should be to Baring-Gould's 'Songs of the West' though Baring-Gould felt obliged to write new words as he found the original ones "silly". The Kennedy citation is the much more recent 'Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland, 1975' where it is #299, taken from a 1954 recording by Peter Kennedy of Harry Holland from Exeter.