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Thread #46   Message #4007827
Posted By: GUEST,Nick Dow
08-Sep-19 - 02:48 PM
Thread Name: Origin: The Lincolnshire Poacher
Subject: RE: Origin: The Lincolnshire Poacher
The usual tune yes, but not the Dorset tune. I reckon the 'Angel' tune is in the Miller of Dee family of tunes, and possibly stemmed from the 'Gregory Walker' tune. Top of the pops in the seventeenth Century.