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Thread #22878   Message #275339
Posted By: GUEST,Bruce O.
10-Aug-00 - 05:37 PM
Thread Name: Penguin: The Trees They Grow So High
Subject: RE: Penguin: The Trees They Grow So High
Sorry, I should have noted this yesterday in the "Lang A-Growing" thread. The text that Malcolm gives above from David Buchan's 'A Book of Scottish Ballads' is nearly the same as that which C. K. Sharpe gave (untitled) in 'Additional Illustrations to the Scots Musical Museum', #377. There are some small differences: 'wrang' for 'wrong' in the 1st and 2nd verses, repeat of 2nd line as the 3rd in the 4th verse, colligeneers vs collegineers, gat for got, and some capitalization. In 'Additional Illustrations' Sharpe deleted the line in the 7th verse -'Then he lifted up her fine holland sark'.

There is a good traditional text of 6 verses collected about 1825 in Emily Lyle's 'Andrew Crawfurd's Collection of Ballads and Songs', II, #122, 1996, but no tune was recorded for it. In her notes she says the earliest tune known for the ballad is one in Christie's 'Traditional Ballad Airs', which I don't have.