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Thread #43023   Message #626763
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
12-Jan-02 - 05:28 PM
Thread Name: Help: There is a tavern in the town
Subject: RE: Help: There is a tavern in the town
I don't think there's any doubt of that, though whether the new song was made in America or England is uncertain; the evidence we have would suggest the former, I'd have thought.

The Died of Love text at the Prof's site (George's link) unfortunately names no source; for what it's worth it was noted by H.E.D. Hammond from William Bartlett at Wimbourne, Dorset, in 1905, and appeared in the Journal of the Folk Song Society, no.19, 1915.

In a fit of absentmindedness I referred to Anne Gilchrist in my previous post, when I should have said Margaret Dean-Smith.