If any of you go to the Tam Lin web site and explore the "King's Daughter Lady Jane" example (which I don't see as related to the "fairy/faerie" topic, since there is no magical element in the tale), you might like to know that the text quoted there is the one I collected from Sara Cleveland in Brant Lake, New York, and included on her Folk-Legacy record (FSA-33 - now available as a custom cassette with the original booklet). I would be pleased to see the Tam Lin web site credit their source, darn it.

Mrs. Cleveland knew the song as "Queen Jane," although it had nothing to do with the Child ballad of that title, but rather was the only version of "The King's Daughter Lady Jean" (Child 52) ever found in tradition in the United States. Bronson included it in his appendix, since it was collected too late to be in the first volumes of his great work.

Sandy