The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #164203 Message #3937206
Posted By: Steve Gardham
13-Jul-18 - 03:08 PM
Thread Name: Origins: James Madison Carpenter- Child Ballads 3
Subject: RE: Origins: James Madison Carpenter- Child Ballads 3
Of all the incongruities between ballad text and refrain this one must take the prize! It's almost the level of burlesque. I can visualise Sam Cowell performing this, or Joe Grimaldi.