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Thread #6346   Message #3933737
Posted By: GUEST,Kevin W.
27-Jun-18 - 02:35 PM
Thread Name: Help: The Unfortunate Rake
Subject: RE: Help: The Unfortunate Rake
Thank you very much for posting these, Jim!
The first version from Peggy Delaney is very interesting, it's like a missing link between the Newfoundland version "Annie Franklin" (even the name is very similar) and Tom Lenihan's Irish version.
Annie Franklin (Collected by Kenneth Peacock)

I think that the existance of Peggy Delaney's Irish version with that ending verse makes an Irish origin for Lenihan's version more believable.