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Thread #97739   Message #23169
Posted By: Bruce O.
06-Mar-98 - 10:51 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Hanged I Shall Be
Subject: RE: ADD: Hangèd I shall be
Palmer is pretty reliable, and he knows his broadside ballads, many directly from the collections, not reprints, so I guess I wasn't the first to note the bloody miller ballad, after all. Thanks Wolfgang. I didn't know about that book by Palmer. I have several others including 'Everyman's Book of British Ballads', 1980. I forgot to look at the latter for songs that turned up on many threads here.

He has in it: The Lambton Worm, A Woman's work is never done, Marrowbones, The Lobster, (old sea crab), Great Silkie/ The Swan swims so bonny (twa sisters), and some others.