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Thread #162666   Message #3897239
Posted By: Steve Gardham
03-Jan-18 - 05:38 PM
Thread Name: New Book: Folk Song in England
Subject: RE: New Book: Folk Song in England
Sweet Primroses, BTW, the last stanza 'the cloudy morning turning out to be a sunshiny day' is a broadside commonplace. Amongst others it is used in some broadside versions of 'Young Riley' and creeps into the American 'Fair and Tender Ladies'. Commonplaces are just as common on cheap print as they are in oral tradition if not moreso. The broadside writers were, like their fellow workers in the cities, great recyclers.