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Thread #140911   Message #3298661
Posted By: Richie
29-Jan-12 - 05:17 PM
Thread Name: Child Ballads: US Versions
Subject: RE: Child Ballads: US Versions
Hi,

I'm working on Child 39, Tam Lin. Thre are two version J's or at least this version is listed under J:

Queen of the Fairies- Version K [appears under the title J but should be K or perhaps a supplimental version not intented to be lettered] Child 39 Tam Lin

'The Queen of the Fairies,' Macmath Manuscript, p. 57. "Taken down by me 14th October, 1886, from the recitation of Mr. Alexander Kirk, Inspector of Poor, Dairy, in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, who learned it about fifty years ago from the singing of David Ray, Barlay, Balmaclellan."

1    The maid that sits in Katherine's Hall,
Clad in her robes so black,
She has to yon garden gone,
For flowers to flower her hat.

Subsequent versions added K-N seem to have skipped this version.

Can anyone clear this up?

Richie