The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #40854 Message #588558
Posted By: Joe_F
08-Nov-01 - 06:09 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Little Sir Hugh (from Steeleye Span)
Subject: RE: Little sir Hugh
Child's notes on this song are well worth reading. He gives a full account of the libel, country by country. He did not have access to the Appalachians, but he did record one version from an informant who had heard it from black children in New York City, traced it from them to Irish children, and from them to an old Irish immigrant woman who had learned it in the old country. There, too, all mention of the Jews had disappeared!