TY Jim

The chart is great, I've put it on my site here: http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/comparative-broadside-chart.aspx but I'm having trouble lining things up. Jim, if you can send in Jpeg one for each page I think it would work better.

You were right about the Dunn version. I'd seen the lines before but they are in US versions:

Through 'braces and kisses they parted that night,
She started next morning for to meet him by light;
[from Cruel Ship's Carpenter --Sung by Captain Pearl R. Nye, (1872-1950) on November 3, 1937. Recorded Lomax]

Now I need to compare the the traditional version to your chart :)

Please transcribe Findlater's version. I only have one edition of Greig/Duncan and it's not in it.

It's safe to say the both of the early broadsides Roxburghe/Deming were not traditional in Britain or else they would have been collected. There are 7 Canadian version of "Gosport" and four or so from the US, including the Nye version which corresponds to Dunn's fragment.

There's a Pretty Polly version Flander's collected from Sulivan in VT and the recording is online here: https://archive.org/details/hhfbc-cyl40 but it's so bad I can't make it out- anyone? It may be a different song.

Richie