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Thread #48816   Message #735001
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
22-Jun-02 - 10:51 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Dawning of the Day
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: DAWNING OF THE DAY
The version above (Harding B25(480) was printed in Worcester. By the printing I would guess very late 18C; not defined more closely than 17-- by the Bodleian. Another version with some different verses, Harding B26(119), was printed in Belfast between 1846-1852. The song seems to have been known throughout the British Isles and Ireland, not just in Scotland as stated in the Ballad Index.