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Thread #94598   Message #4061853
Posted By: Reinhard
28-Jun-20 - 07:22 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Foggy Foggy Dew (bachelor)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Foggy Foggy Dew (bachelor)
First and last verse are from Carl Sandburg, American Songbag (1927), page 14-15, they were posted in
Origins: The Foggy Foggy Dew [bachelor] in 2010.

The other verses can be piecewise found in other versions; verse 2 is quite similar to Phil Hammond in Songs of Seduction; verse 3 is somewhat similar to Shirley Collins. But I haven't found an exact match yet.

And googling for Foggy Dew and Mike Sands yields quite another song, the 1916 Easter uprising song The Foggy Dew (Roud 973), sung by Michael Sands on the 1996 album Folk Songs - Story Songs - Part One on the KPM label.