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Thread #92785   Message #1777930
Posted By: pavane
07-Jul-06 - 01:58 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Resources for researching song origins
Subject: RE: Origins: Resources for researching song origins
And 17th C.

Note that versions of many songs we know as 'traditional folk' in the UK can be found in the various collections of broadsides, but often not under the name we use now.

A few examples:

Our Captain Cried... = The Distressed Maid

Sovay, Sovay = Sylivia's request and William's denial

Little Matty Groves/Little Musgrave = The lamentable ditty of the little Mousgrove, and the Lady Barnet

Villikens & Dinah = William & Dinah, also William and Diana