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Thread #112025 Message #2366103
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
14-Jun-08 - 08:06 PM
Thread Name: songs about traditional Wrestlers
Subject: RE: songs about traditional Wrestlers
A little closer to home, see thread The wrestling match for a song from the Baring-Gould collection about a Cornish wrestling incident.
There are a few broadsides dealing with wrestling at Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads:
wrestling broadsides
See also these past discussions, which in places touch on the question:
Folklore: English wrestling
folk music and professional wrestlers