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Thread #43706 Message #3973282
Posted By: Steve Gardham
24-Jan-19 - 10:46 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Brian O'Lynn & Tam o' the Linn
Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: Brian O'Lynn & Tam o' the Linn
Also I can't see the 4st version in Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland 1829.
There is in Scottish Tradition, by David Buchan a 4st version said to have come from Sharpe and reprinted by David Laing in 1880.
You don't mention Deeming's Boston reprint of Coverley which might have helped to spread that version in America.
You haven't yet included the many broadside printings c1840-70.
It will be easier for me to put up my own lists as it would take me longer to compare.