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Thread #6452   Message #37608
Posted By: Bruce O.
09-Sep-98 - 01:38 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: older English folk songs
Subject: RE: Older English Folk Songs-lyrics needed
"The lusty young smith/ blacksmith" was composed and written by Richard Leveridge, and there are several single sheet with music issues of c 1705. It was also reprinted with the tune in Vol. IV of 'Pills to Purge Melancholy', 1719.