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Thread #3990   Message #314085
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
07-Oct-00 - 09:49 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Bellringing / The Bell Ringing
Subject: RE: LYRICS ADDED BELLRINGER
Yes; it's a Devon song, though three of the placenames are over the border.  It was collected by Sabine Baring Gould (I think) from William George Kerswell of Two Bridges, Dartmoor, and first published in Songs of the West (various editions between 1889 and 1905).

Malcolm