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Thread #9564 Message #62120
Posted By: Bruce O.
09-Mar-99 - 04:51 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Twa Corbies / Three Ravens (Child #26)
Subject: RE: Twa corbies on a tree. Words??
The text and tune from Albyn's Anthology, 1818, are given in Bronson's 'The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads', I, p. 312, #8, 1959. The only prior version is "The Three Ravens" in Ravenscroft's 'Pamelia', 1611. [Child #26]