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Thread #131826   Message #2978771
Posted By: Jim Carroll
02-Sep-10 - 04:37 PM
Thread Name: Child Ballads survived in oral trad.
Subject: RE: Child Ballads survived in oral trad.
"Robin Hood ones for instance"
Robin Hood ballads have been collected from oral tradition, notably the one Greig ignored from an illiterate Travelling man he knew (probably because he was a Traveller). Luckily the singer turned up at the School of Scottish Studies some decades later and recorded it - now to be heard on the album, The Muckle Songs.
I think I am right in saying the Rory Greig's grandmother, Jessie Kidd (??) also sang a Robin Hood ballad.
Jim Carroll