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Thread #31678   Message #3045461
Posted By: IanC
03-Dec-10 - 06:54 AM
Thread Name: Origins of The Wild Rover
Subject: RE: Origins of The Wild Rover
A Welshman might have told you this, but I think it is fairly common knowledge that The Dubliners got their version from "The Singing Island" eds. MacColl/Seeger (1960). The version in there was, in turn, collected from Sam Larner, Norfolk fisherman, in 1959.

:-)
Ian