The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #16979   Message #245843
Posted By: A Wandering Minstrel
22-Jun-00 - 10:38 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Snows They Melt the Soonest
Subject: RE: snows they melt ... - author?
"Songs of Northumberland" was published in about 1928 by BlackGate Press in Newcastle. According to the flyleaf it was printed for the "Dunelm Singers" and gives the lyrics of about 50 Tyneside and Northumbrian popular songs with annotations as to where and when they came from. "Snows.." is printed in full with the ascription "Collected by Doubleday from an unnamed street singer and first published in 1821" This is probably just recapitulating above posts but I posted it as a possible piece of corroboration for your own thread above..