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Thread #112465   Message #592234
Posted By: GUEST,Steve
14-Nov-01 - 03:05 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Bedlam Boys / Tom of Bedlam
Subject: RE: Help: BEDLAM BOYS
Yes, Kitty, that's the Giles Earle His Book version, a bit modernized to have "Still I cry" instead of "Yet will I sing". Or, Possibly, the Robert Graves reconstruction, which uses the same chorus. In some ways it's a more vivid and haunting song than the Steeleye Span/Halliard version.

Steve