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Thread #140911 Message #3315691
Posted By: Steve Gardham
01-Mar-12 - 01:01 PM
Thread Name: Child Ballads: US Versions
Subject: RE: Child Ballads: US Versions
The Broadwood one is quite easy. The note says 'The 1843 and 1889 versions contain only the first verse. The other 19 verses are taken from a Catnach broadside.'
No point in giving you the broadside verses as I'm sure they'll be on the Bodl or you'll already have them. Here's the first verse from Lewis Jones's 1995 reprint:
Lord Bateman he had a mind to travel Into some foreign country; Where he was taken and put in prison, Till of his life he was quite weary.