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Thread #143708 Message #3346660
Posted By: Richie
03-May-12 - 10:07 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Child Ballads: US Versions Part 2
Subject: RE: Origins: Child Ballads: US Versions Part 2
Looks like the earliest US published version of Lord Lovel is 1832 in The New England Songster, Portsmouth, NH, Nathaniel March and Co., pp. 86-88. The next version, found in Hadaway's Select Songster (1840), can be viewed online.