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Thread #65990 Message #4004268
Posted By: Reinhard
12-Aug-19 - 11:03 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Billy Boy
Subject: RE: Origins: Billy Boy
Gerry, the 'As the heart is to the knife' was my fault/mishearing. Martin Carthy gives James Reeves as his source and Reeves' words in The Idiom of the People contain the line 'As the haft is to the knife'.