The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #157805   Message #3832422
Posted By: Lighter
13-Jan-17 - 05:01 PM
Thread Name: Border & Hero ballads, Child #171-188
Subject: RE: Border & Hero ballads, Child #171-188
"The Long Harvest" is MacColl & Seeger's multi-disk anthology of more or less authentic texts and tunes.

"Blood and Roses" consists of rewrites with tunes attached.

It may be that some of the "Border and Heroic Ballads" were *never* sung.