The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #33105 Message #439189
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
12-Apr-01 - 03:10 PM
Thread Name: Traditional Music Question
Subject: RE: Traditional Music Question
The "1907 version" posted by Roll&Go is presumably the one noted by H.E.D. Hammond from Mr. Taunton of Corscombe in Dorset in 1907. (not "Mr. Taunton Corscombe", as the entry in the DT has it -see Bold Benjamin). The song and its antecedents were discussed in this thread, and Mr. Taunton's text quoted again:
The Bold Benjamin Sara Grey and friends seem to have changed the words in some places.
Malcolm