When you write about making "corrections" to a folk song, there is an assumption that there is only 1 true set of words. This flies in the face of the very nature of folk song, i.e. that the text may change over the years as successive performers both consciously and unconsciously alter words. Substituting "myrtle shade" for "crystal stream" should hardly be thought of as a correction. Father Charlie's version is as valid as anyone else's.

Beyond that, there are a few typos in A Bonnie Bunch of Roses and pluralizing "blackbird of sweet Avondale" in line 4 of verse 2 is one of them. At the time the book was put together, there were no such things as a PC and Spell Check. Therefore, the book was literally pasted together by a typesetter. He must've done this song after lunch when he was a little spleepy.

The book has been continuously in print since 1983. It's a stock item at most Borders bookstores in the USA and there are 2 copies at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library of the English Folk Dance & Song Society in London.

All the best,
Dan Milner

P.S. I recently picked up a copy of Charles Stewart Parnell written by his brother, John Howard Parnell in 1914. JHP lived on a plantation in Alabama.