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Thread #155519 Message #3659877
Posted By: Gutcher
13-Sep-14 - 11:09 AM
Thread Name: Ballads not included in Child
Subject: RE: Ballads not included in Child
Not necessarily Steve. As I understand it Child in his final collection had a main ballad followed by various variations and somewhere he may have included W & L M in that work. Perhaps someone may check this out.
My own 1861 edition of the English and Scottish Ballads does not have these variations, being confined to one named ballad per title.
Take a look at a letter dated 1.6.13 on the Musical Traditions Internet Magazine and on the CBDB site the second last item on the CD
gives the words as sung.