The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #28149 Message #3686794
Posted By: Jack Campin
18-Dec-14 - 09:55 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Man with rag in ear
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Man with rag in ear
"Chickens and Sparrow-Grass" is a 3/2 hornpipe in Henry Atkinson's manuscript from Northumbria in 1694. So it looks like this song started life in Rightpondia. Anyone know comparably early British words for it?