The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #159967   Message #3792662
Posted By: Reinhard
28-May-16 - 03:09 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Molly Bawn (Polly Vaughn)
Subject: RE: DTStudy: Molly Bawn (Polly Vaughn)
Where did Jim Carroll get the extra stanza? It's posted online after a version he collected. The version I have doesn't have that stanza.

My three Harry Cox versions don't have it either. But a very similar verse is in versions sung by A.L. Lloyd, Shirley Collins, Anne Briggs and Martin Carthy. Carthy noted that it "is another song from the Norfolk collection of E.J. Moeran with an additional verse" but didn't say where this verse came from.