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Thread #172604   Message #4189560
Posted By: Anglo
30-Aug-23 - 05:32 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Valparaiso / Paddy Lay Back
Subject: RE: Origins: Valparaiso / Paddy Lay Back
Gibb mentioned, above, the version given by Benjamin Bright, from 1929 in the Carpenter collection. Could this be the same Ben Bright that Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger collected a few decades later? Unfortunately my library is currently in disarray, and I can't put my hand on Ewan's monograph.