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Thread #156181   Message #3681281
Posted By: Steve Gardham
30-Nov-14 - 05:18 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Lord Thomas in North America
Subject: RE: Origins: Lord Thomas in North America
Almost every word in B either comes from A or from 2 versions of Sally and her Truelove Billy he had collected from oral tradition. All 3 items stand side by side in the Full English Archive online. Obviously he had to alter the metre of one of them. As I think Child states, the final verse is a straight borrowing from The Unquiet Grave.

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