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Thread #45832   Message #682063
Posted By: Wolfgang
03-Apr-02 - 10:51 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Willie O Winsbury (Child #100)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Willie O Winsbury
Andy's melody is totally different. It is used at least by Sweeney's men, Anne Briggs and Anne Byrne on the 'Come by the hills' LP.

If you want to hear a traditional tune for that song you can listen to R. Cinnamond on 'Songs of the People', CD No. 17, titled 'It fell on a day, a bonny summer day'. The Cinnamond track has the title 'There was a lady lived in the west'.

Dick Gaughan on his eponymous LP sings a tune to this song I can't place. He says on the notes that he doesn't 'remember where I got this tune'.

Some discussion about the tunes is already in the thread Arbutus

Wolfgang