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Thread #164203   Message #3937189
Posted By: Steve Gardham
13-Jul-18 - 01:16 PM
Thread Name: Origins: James Madison Carpenter- Child Ballads 3
Subject: RE: Origins: James Madison Carpenter- Child Ballads 3
The NLS chapbook version is taken verbatim from Jamieson.

I think George was mixing this up with another similar ballad, perhaps Fair Flower of Northumberland. As far as I know there is no early broadside in English, or in fact any broadside other than that taken from collections like Jamieson/Herd etc.