The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #159270   Message #3773261
Posted By: Joe Offer
16-Feb-16 - 08:32 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: King John and the Bishop (Child #45)
Subject: RE: DTStudy: King John and the Bishop (Child #45)
Threads like this give me an excuse to buy recordings, which I do in great profusion. So this thread was a good excuse for me to get the two Topic Chris Foster recordings that were available at emusic.com. The first half of the Digital Tradition lyric correspond almost exactly with the Foster recording, but the second halves are quite different. The Foster recording is terrific, by the way.

Foster uses the typical "Down, Derry Down" melody that's used in "Iron Ore" and other songs of the ilk.

-Joe-