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Thread #151087   Message #3589575
Posted By: GUEST
06-Jan-14 - 06:36 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Child Ballads: US Versions Part 6
Subject: RE: Origins: Child Ballads: US Versions Part 6
Modern print editions eg: High Barbaree have sometimes attributed to Charles Dibdin. (see the sample image).

I too can see nothing in the Dibdin collections except for the Blow High, Blow Low title that seems related.

Bronson in a footnote to his introduction to George Aloe... (vol IV) reaches the same conclusion - that Shay was mistaken.

Mick