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Thread #147458   Message #3417323
Posted By: MGM·Lion
10-Oct-12 - 01:23 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Foggy Dew[East Anglian Version]
Subject: RE: The Foggy Dew[East Anglian Version]
Yes, I remembered correctly. 17 pages on that song in Reeves' Introduction, well worth looking up*. The book is based on the Cecil Sharp MSs in the library of Clare College, Cambridge; composite version of Foggy Dew in the text from 1903, 1904, 1908 versions from Lucy White & Louie Hooper, John Voke, William Stokes.

~M~


*James Reeves The Idiom of the People, London, Heinemann, 1958