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Thread #121616   Message #2657224
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
15-Jun-09 - 05:34 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: One song for each old English County
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: One song for each old English County
Anyone got a copy of English_County_Songs, published in 1893, "Words and Music Collected and Edited by Lucy E. Broadwood and J.A. Fuller Maitland M.A., F.S.A"?

"As can be seen from these groupings, particularly the last one, there was a somewhat arbitrary nature to the allocation to a particular grouping, and the appropriateness of its title (for instance, Wiltshire has been included in the grouping for the South Coast, and large tranches of various of the other counties are nowhere near a coastline!)

Three counties were also missing from the overall collection - Monmouthshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire.

The actual allocation of songs to particular counties was also somewhat less than accurate. In one or two instances a song collected in one particular county has been allocated to another because it was known that the version in question was sung there, or because the singer had actual associations with the county in question, although no longer living there. "