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Thread #93874   Message #1810890
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
16-Aug-06 - 02:21 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Death and the Lady (from Cecil Sharp)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cecil Sharp's 'Death and the Lady'
For some strange reason the link to lyrics at that site actually produces something called "In Huskin' Time". Same for the midi and the scorch plugin link.

For more on the background of the song group, see thread  Tune Add: Death And The Lady.

One Hundred English Folksongs' is still, so far as I know, available in paperback from Dover publications. The set of 'Death and the Lady' came from Mrs R Sage at Chew Stoke, Somerset; Sharp noted it from her on 11 January 1907. Mrs Sage was 75. The published text is a little amended in places; her "cold earth of day" is changed to "cold earthen clay", for example.