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Thread #150251   Message #3506723
Posted By: GUEST
21-Apr-13 - 03:06 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Rose-Briar Motif
Subject: RE: Origins: Rose-Briar Motif
That's funny because the most memorable quote I remember regarding the ballad Barbara Allen were written by Irish poet Oliver Goldsmith who said "The music of the finest singer is dissonance to what I felt when our old dairy-maid sung me into tears with "Johnny Armstrong's Last Good Night," or the "Cruelty of Barbara Allen." End quote.I will stuff that treasure right into my little book bag, and take it on down to the bank. But, I will hang to to a bit of my oral currency just in case anybody is in a betting mode because Lord Levett's snow-white steed and Lord Lovel's milk-white lovely is chomping at the bit. Pretty horsies.

Never fear Jim, others do.