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Thread #150417 Message #3513873
Posted By: Jim Carroll
11-May-13 - 11:30 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Child Ballads: US Versions Part 5
Subject: RE: Origins: Child Ballads: US Versions Part 5
"Sounds to me like Sladen or somebody else went to work on the text with a will....." Sorry - been away - why should any one individual have "gone to work on it" with or without a will? Seamus Ennis had an equally bawdy/obscene and inventive Irish version of it - that's the folk process for you! Too many unqualified suggestions of late on what the folk process did or didn't do to songs in my opinion. Jim Carroll