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Thread #106161   Message #2193398
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
14-Nov-07 - 07:17 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Derwentwater's Farewell
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Derwentwater's Farewell
For completeness on Derwentwater's Farewell: the Roud Index gives another two references for the song in English Dance and Song 32:1 (1979), p20. and Whittaker: North Countrie Ballads Songs & Pipe-Tunes 2 pp.124-125.

I had the following information from Malcolm Douglas re. the ED&S article, which in fact covers both of these:

"It was a reprint from W G Whittaker, North Countrie Ballads and Pipe Tunes, 1921. The text is the same as Songs of Northern England, and the tune is as in Northumbrian Minstrelsy, except that the final note in the penultimate bar is an f# instead of a g."


Mick