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Thread #29700   Message #384393
Posted By: Lanfranc
28-Jan-01 - 05:58 PM
Thread Name: Help: Unusual Devon songs
Subject: RE: Help: Unusual Devon songs
"Strawberry Fair" (which isn't in the DT) was collected by Baring-Gould from James Masters of Broadstone, Devon. The traditional version bears little resemblance to the bowdlerised song of the same name recorded by Anthony Newley in the 60s.

The original MS is in Plymouth Central Library. My source is Roy Palmer's "Everyman's Book of English COuntry Songs".

If there is any interest, I will post it.