The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #147458   Message #3417321
Posted By: MGM·Lion
10-Oct-12 - 01:08 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Foggy Dew[East Anglian Version]
Subject: RE: The Foggy Dew[East Anglian Version]
The rather shorter version that Bert used to sing surely originated [or at least was collected from] Harry Cox; or perhaps one of his Norfolk predecessors, from whom older collections contain several of what are often thought of as 'his' versions.

I seem to recall a lot about the symbolism of 'dew' to represent virginity in the intro to James Reeves's The Idiom Of The People; shall go back there and check.

~Michael~