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Thread #17054   Message #2745518
Posted By: GUEST, Sminky
14-Oct-09 - 10:02 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Workhouse Boy
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Workhouse boy
So, who do you believe - Roud or me?

OK it IS on page 42 of Henderson and omits verse 3 from Mick's version, above.

For completeness, here's the complete listing of songs in the Halliard booklet along with the source of the text, where given. Other sources mentioned are enclosed in brackets.

THE DIGGINS O - Ashton
CLEVER TOM CLINCH - Jonathan Swift poem
BILL DON'T YOU CRY FOR ME - not stated
THE DESERTER - Henderson
ROBIN HOOD - Grimsby Library?
NIGHTINGALE IN THE EAST - Shepard
BOLD CAPTAIN GRANT - Harkness
WITH WELLINGTON WE'LL GO - Ashton
TURPIN'S BONNIE BLACK BESS - Ashton
DEATH OF NESLON - Birmingham Lib (Ashton)
THE SUFFERING OF CHARLES ADOLPHUS KING - Manchester Ref Lib
RAKISH YOUNG FELLOW - either Harkness or Manchester Ref Lib
STOW BROW - unknown
MILES WEATHERHILL - Hindley (Henderson)
SAD LAMENTATION OF JOHN KINGTON - either Coventry or Birmingham Lib
CALICO PRINTER'S CLERK - Harkness
LADIES GO A-THIEVING - Henderson
GOING FOR A SOLDIER JENNY - Henderson
THE WORKHOUSE BOY - Birmingham Lib (Ashton)
A THOUSAND MILES AWAY - Birmingham Lib
THE LAST FAREWELL OF FROST, JONES AND WILLIAMS - unknown

KEY:


Ashton

Ashton, John, Modern Street Ballads (1888)


D'Urfey

D'Urfey, Thomas, Wit and Mirth: Or Pills to Purge Melancholy (1698-1720)


Harkness

The Harkness Broadside Ballad Collection, Harris Library, Preston


Henderson

Henderson, W., Victorian Street Ballads (1937)


Hindley

Hindley, Charles, Curiosities of Street Literature (1871)


Shepard

Shepard, Leslie, The Broadside Ballad, A Study In Origins And Meaning (1962)