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Thread #128355   Message #2875471
Posted By: Jack Campin
30-Mar-10 - 07:11 AM
Thread Name: Weak Breathy Girly Vocals in Folk?
Subject: RE: Weak Breathy Girly Vocals in Folk?
[Blue Bleezin Blind Drunk]
What are the origins of the song?

According to MacColl and Seeger in Till Doomsday in the Afternoon, "From the singing of Sheila MacGregor. Learned from her mother."

I'd guess it was an extremely-folk-processed temperance broadside.