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Thread #153923 Message #3609051
Posted By: Brian Peters
12-Mar-14 - 06:45 AM
Thread Name: Repeating the first verse at the end
Subject: RE: Repeating the first verse at the end
... or, going back a little further than Suffolk pub singing:
"The maidens in dulcet manner chanted out this song [The Fair Flower of Northumberland], two of them singing the ditty, and all the rest bearing the burden [refrain]"