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Thread #13674   Message #2051773
Posted By: Herga Kitty
14-May-07 - 06:22 PM
Thread Name: Help: I Wandered by a Brookside
Subject: RE: Help: I Wandered By A Brookside
No Malcolm it isn't - I wandered by the brookside isn't included in Down the Green Groves (at least not in my 1989 copy). There is a general note that says, "As Alfred did not collect any tunes at all, I had to set about finding them. I have spent many hours, poring over books and manuscripts, and listening to records, hoping to find the tune that was right for each song. Every time we heard someone sing a song that was similar to one on a manuscript, we obtained the tune from them. Where there was more than one tune, we chose the nearest one. Some of the songs were so beautiful that I felt I had to write new tunes; and then, of course, somebody comes up with the right one."

I think, because Barbara has been receiving royalties for the Eva Cassidy recording, that she wrote that tune (and also because it was Bob and Gill Berry who told me that Barbara was now getting royalties). The tune notated by Caro Kettlewell in Bob Copper's Early to Rise is based on "There's no place like home"!

Kitty