Hi Steve,

Here's the link to the Bunting 1840 text:
https://books.google.com/books?id=OSFUBb9PrjAC&pg=PA100&dq=%22I+would+I+were+a+little+swallow%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj8-t7wsNz It's in his song notes.

You need to keep giving me the antecedents you're sitting on- but I like to finish what I start-- at least get it to a point where it's reasonable. So there are 30 different ballads and songs so far in the related Died for Love family (a number of them under Died for Love)- but the end is in sight. I'm just trying to get everything roughed in.

Just look at each version and see if you've left anything off. The study can be improved later.

Did you look at the 311 Irish broadsides? I sent you the link a week ago. Thanks for sending the Greig and Tunney. Look at the Bunting-- it seems unlikely that Tunney's version would be exactly Bunting's. I know it's only three lines but Little Swallow is not well known. I'm accepting it as a version but it seems like Tunney took Bunting's text and finished it- that was my first impression.

I'll look at the 'The Killarney Tragedy'.

Do you think "The Ripest Apple" is a distant "died for love" variant? In Sam Henry it seems that way. It's really just a stanza but it's used with died for love stanzas and in the courting song "Twenty -Eighteen" see Broadwood's English Carols (Barry calls it the Quaker's Courtship)- just a stanza tho. That's probably the last associated stanza/song (not much of a song and obscure).

Richie