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Thread #43529   Message #637702
Posted By: Mark Cohen
29-Jan-02 - 05:08 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Rambleaway (Waterson:Carthy)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Rambleaway, Waterson:Carthy
nutty, I believe that's where the Roberts/Barrand version came from. Unfortunately I didn't write their version down, and while I have their record I don't have a turntable. But it's similar to the Bodleian one. John Roberts wrote on the album jacket (1971), regarding their "Rambleaway": "Very common in the English tradition, especially in the South, I learned this version at the Manchester University Folk Song Club, from a singer whose name I am afraid I don't recall." And him with a degree in folklore and everything!

Aloha,
Mark