The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #5637   Message #606715
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
09-Dec-01 - 10:45 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Young Tamblin / Tam Lin
Subject: RE: Young Tamblin
The DT text was evidently transcribed by ear from a record made by Pete Morton, and contains a number of mistakes due to mis-hearings.  He doesn't sing a traditional set, having apparantly added some bits from other versions to A.L. Lloyd's form of the song, which also appears to be a modern adaptation by him (probably based on the text -without a tune- that James Duncan got from Bell Robertson in 1915), with a tune that may or may not be genuine (as usual, Lloyd seems to have been rather coy about where it came from).

Frankie Armstrong also sings a modified form of the Lloyd set.  Although I haven't heard Les Barker's parody and only vaguely remember the Morton recording, I can confirm that the tune Snuffy has posted is the one put to the song by Lloyd.