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Thread #7782 Message #2721100
Posted By: Tootler
10-Sep-09 - 07:14 PM
Thread Name: Alternative words for the Wild Rover??
Subject: RE: Alternative words for the Wild Rover??
Go to the Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads website:
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm
and search for "Wild Rover". You should get about 7 hits mostly dating from the second quarter of the 19th century.
The style of the song is clearly one aiming to convey a moral message and there is no hint of the "no nay never" chorus. Where did that chorus come from?