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Thread #43715   Message #640852
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
02-Feb-02 - 04:58 PM
Thread Name: Help: Horse Thief / Crafty Maid's Policy
Subject: RE: Help: Song about lady horse thief
As I mentioned, Lovely Joan is a different song.  See, in the DT:

LOVELY JOAN  Set from Roy Palmer's Everyman's Book of English Country Songs (1979); though the DT file does not say so, it was noted by Ralph Vaughan Williams from Christopher Jay of Acle, Norfolk, in 1908.

In the Forum:

Lovely Joan  The set from the Penguin Book of English Folk Songs; Mr. Jay's set again.  According to A.L. Lloyd's notes, a partial text had been expanded with reference to another in Cecil Sharp's MS collection; RVW seems originally only to have written down Mr. Jay's final verse.