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Thread #150417   Message #3513221
Posted By: Richie
08-May-13 - 09:43 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Child Ballads: US Versions Part 5
Subject: RE: Origins: Child Ballads: US Versions Part 5
Hi,

I've moved on to 275 Get Up and Bar the Door. Seems like many of the collected US versions are questionable. Cox, Combs, Gainer, Brown A and B, plus Niles are all questionable- I've pointed this out even tho I hate doing it. Should I?

Here's a link to one:
http://bluegrassmessengers.com.temp.realssl.com/john-jones--thomas-wv-pre1975-gainer.aspx

Coffin lists the version in Davidson's Universal Melodist- how can that be a US version?

Also I can find the version in Delehanty & Hengler's Song and Dance Book- 1874. Is it on-line? Are there other versions in US songsters?

Any other US versions? I have Davis, Barry, Creighton and Flanders to put on yet.

TY

Richie