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Thread #28033   Message #421611
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
20-Mar-01 - 11:41 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Knoxville Girl
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Knoxville Girl
Wexford Girl is a later form of the song, commonly found in America but rarely in England; it would, I suspect, be an Irish localisation of the earlier Oxford Girl.  You can find several American tune variants through my first link above; meanwhile, I'll have a look around here; I certainly have one, The Wexford Murder, which Fred Hamer got from Walter Church of Bedfordshire; Church had in his youth (turn of the 19th/20th century) briefly emigrated to Canada, and learnt it from Irish friends there.

Malcolm