I have since re-evaluated the last line of The Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies and some time ago, pretty much decided that the change is a bit too radical. Rest easy, folks.

But I do remind you that Dr. Fowler, as knowledgeable a ballad scholar as anyone I've ever met (including Charles Seeger, patriarch of the Seeger family, whom I met and conversed with at the 1964 Berkeley Folk Festival), thought the change was all right and even remarked that there may be versions that end that way.

I'll do some further research. And if I do find one, I may re-re-evaluate my decision. . . .

Don Firth