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Thread #33388 Message #480549
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
10-Jun-01 - 10:18 PM
Thread Name: Help: The Foggy Dew (from John McCormack, 1913)
Subject: RE: Help: History of Foggy, Foggy Dew
Malcolm Douglas in his summary of 19 April listed a reference to a Foggy Dew in the Bodleian- Batchelor early and young (broadside 1842-1855). This version tells of the weaver, and is close to the Burl Ives version, talking about having children, but not specifically of the weaver's son. The Batchelor Brave, also on Malcolm's list from the Bodleian, is interesting in the batchelor "kept a roaring trade." I always wondered if the "roving" trade in some versions was a mis-hearing.