Mudcat Café message #4073063

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Thread #65500 Message #4073063
Posted By: Reinhard
25-Sep-20 - 05:55 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Some Rival Has Stolen My True Love Away
Subject: RE: Origins: Some Rival Has Stolen My True Love Away

See Malcolm Douglas' above post from 25 Dec 03:

Cecil Sharp also found examples of the song in much the same form. Volum was glossed as "probably = Vulcan", but it appears that Venus and Volum was actually a mis-hearing of Phoenix and female, as the following broadside example shows: …