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Thread #88614   Message #1664955
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
08-Feb-06 - 11:50 PM
Thread Name: Bawdy Matty Groves?
Subject: RE: Bawdy Matty Groves?
Thread 9276 has good versions posted by Sandy Paton, Joe Offer, and others.
The story's the thing in this ballad. Mehlberg's www.immortalia.com may have something for the more 'purient-minded'.
Thread 9276: Matty Groves

Immortalia: immortalia

I think MMario is trying to undercut sales of the Heiman and Heiman 2nd. edition of Child.
A complete edition on the internet:
http://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/faculty/stampe/Oral-Lit/English/Child-Ballads/child.html
Child Ballads

or, at Contemplator, a good version of 'Mattie Groves' not in Child: Child
Scroll to vol. 2, # 81.