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Thread #120038 Message #3729392
Posted By: MGM·Lion
10-Aug-15 - 12:47 PM
Thread Name: People named in songs
Subject: RE: People named in songs
Famous smallpipe tune, Derwentwater's Farewell. Lord Derwentwater aka in balladry as Lord Allenwater &c--
'James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater (26 June 1689 – 24 February 1716) was an English Jacobite, executed for treason. His death is remembered in an English traditional ballad, "Lord Allenwater", collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1904 from the singing of Emily Stears' - Wikipedia
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