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Posted By: Richie
20-Apr-12 - 08:50 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Child Ballads: US Versions Part 2
Subject: RE: Origins: Child Ballads: US Versions Part 2

Hi,

I found one version published in the US in 1939, no source given, and two from the 1840s (one is a broadside from Forget-Me-Not Songster). Several versions can be traced through family accounts earlier- one to c. 1716 (Cox).

Any other early US or Canadian versions?

Richie