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Thread #140116   Message #3316839
Posted By: Phil Edwards
03-Mar-12 - 06:41 PM
Thread Name: Fifty-Two Folk Songs
Subject: RE: Fifty-Two Folk Songs
53! Actually I've just uploaded tracks 64-66, featuring folk songs 43-45 or thereabouts (it gets complicated). But this is week 26 - halfway through already! - and only one song can be named Folk Song 26.

And it's Mary Hamilton (Child 173), learned from John Kelly's version and set to a different tune in a different time signature. My tune is based on the tune usually used for Willie o' Winsbury.

Also this week: John from the Isle of Man, a rarely-heard variant of Willie o' Winsbury (Child 100); and Tom the Barber, a slightly less uncommon variant of the same song. Tom the Barber is sung to a variant of the tune John Kelly uses for Mary Hamilton, symmetrically enough.