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Thread #124005   Message #2735737
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
01-Oct-09 - 07:55 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Pressed Man's Lamentation
Subject: RE: Napoleonic War Song - Charley Yarwood
Looks like the title is The Pressed Man's Lamentation (see Mustrads Traditional Discography - TSR44).

I still can't see it in Roud or at Bodleian. There is a reference to it in The Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire, 1867 (P182) on a sheet with The Derbyshire Militia: On the same sheet is "The Pressed Man's Lamentation", a song of four verses, beginning, "Farewell our Daddies and Our Mammies.

And this reference at Oberlin College: The Pressed Man's Lamentation, tells me there's a copy in Roy Palmer's The Sound of History. So if you give me time to get that from the bookshelf, I'll see what I can do.

Mick