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Thread #125951   Message #2794485
Posted By: Bill D
22-Dec-09 - 03:24 PM
Thread Name: Taking on the Big Boys? - classic big long ballads
Subject: RE: Taking on the Big Boys? - classic big long ballads
To make it even more complex, " "Lord Thomas & Fair Elinor" is also called "The Dun Brown Bride" and "Sweet Wille & Fair Annie" and a couple other things: and "The Brown Girl" (#295) is called " The Dover Sailor", "Fine Sally", "Pretty Sally", "Queen Sally", "Sally of London", and "The Rich Irish Lady"

To be deprecated? Oh, indeed...but you should see what I, a woodturner, have to struggle with as people invent clever common names for woods!~ And between the UK, the USA, and Australia, 'Maple' and 'Sycamore' are hoplelessly muddled...not to mention the non-Oak Oaks, the non-Dalbergia "Rosewoods"...etc.