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Thread #1959   Message #3665332
Posted By: Jack Campin
02-Oct-14 - 11:37 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Edinburgh songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Edinburgh songs
I have another version of that one (from a 19th century broadside) on my website as "Duncan Campbell". It changed very little between different versions - the Gaughan one is almost the same except for Scotifying the printed text. I think he got it from Ford's "Vagabond Songs" - it doesn't seem to have survived in oral tradition, which is surprising considering how many 19th century copies of it there were and how good it is.