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Thread #6482 Message #2804232
Posted By: Steve Gardham
05-Jan-10 - 03:51 PM
Thread Name: ADD/Origins: The Rout of the Blues
Subject: RE: Lyr req: Rout of the Blues
Roud number now 21098
Alt titles The route has come for the Blues (Sharp)
The route has just come for the Blues (Purslow-The Foggy Dew)
The Blues (Folk Song Journals)
Scarboro'Sands (Ingledew from a broadside)
Success to the Blues (Catnach broadside c1830)
The rout it is come for the Blues (Baring Gould's Garland of Country Songs)
Rout of the Blues (Sharp-Reeves' Idiom of the People)
Widely printed on English broadsides. The Scarborough Sands version is probably later having been printed by Bebbington of Manchester c1850. The earlier versions either have 'Rosemary Lane' or 'Rosemary Hill' Both Catnach and Pitts printed it so it probably dates from about 1820.