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Thread #172604   Message #4179937
Posted By: Robert B. Waltz
25-Aug-23 - 01:51 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Valparaiso / Paddy Lay Back
Subject: RE: Origins: Valparaiso / Paddy Lay Back
Ligher wrote: Gibb, is it true that Ginovan's and Hugill's are the only known full versions?

Not sure what you mean by a "full" version, but Doerflinger's (from Maitland) is quite long -- 13 stanzas plus a variant final stanza.

Colcord's is shorter -- 5 stanzas -- but I'd still call it a substantial version. I'm too lazy to check every version I have indexed, but there are clearly a number of substantial versions; they aren't all fragments.