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Thread #131826 Message #2983876
Posted By: The Sandman
10-Sep-10 - 09:24 AM
Thread Name: Child Ballads survived in oral trad.
Subject: RE: Child Ballads survived in oral trad.
three score and ten, written by delf, was writen to raise money for orphans and widows. though i live not where i love. Notes: Hammond D.219, Robert Barratt, Piddletown, Dorset, Sept 1905 N.B. Piddletown has since been renamed Puddletown. For more details on the renaming, see the forum discussion listed below.
Some small modifications have been made to Mr. Barrett's text, and his third verse has been moved to the end.
William Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time, 1859; vol.II pp.451-3 and 782) discusses the song and quotes a text from the family tradition (presumably) of the writer and critic Hazlitt, which is quite close to our text here. Broadsides of 1638 (Peter Lowberry) and c.1640 (Martin Parker) appear to be ancestral (though sung to a different tune); particularly the former, The Constant Lover, which begins. there is two for starters.