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Thread #79512 Message #2394911
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
22-Jul-08 - 06:46 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Lass of London City (White Copper Alley)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lass of London City (White Copper Alley)
A few mishearings in that transcription, but not many. Nic got it from Frank Purslow, The Wanton Seed, 1968. Gardiner MS collection H599, from Alfred Porter, Basingstoke, October 1906. Text augmented from a Pitts broadside, and with an additional verse (4, here) written by Purslow to fill 'a gap in the narrative'.
Only one other example found in tradition, and that a fragment, from Marina Russell of Upwey in Dorset (Hammond MSS).