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Thread #85364 Message #1581187
Posted By: Matthew Edwards
11-Oct-05 - 03:25 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Child cries in t' cradle (Yorkshire)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Child cries in t' cradle (Yorkshire)
As Malcolm and Ray have said this is definitely a Lancashire creation; written by the Rochdale dialect poet Edwin Waugh. I've lost, lent or given away my copy of his poems so I can't help with the words just yet. The album notes to the Topic LP 'from the north' by Gary and Vera Asprey, Topic 12TS255, 1975 state that the song as written by Edwin Waugh was set to music in 1899 by C.E. Rowley.