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Thread #50758 Message #771663
Posted By: debils
26-Aug-02 - 08:25 AM
Thread Name: folk song carriers
Subject: RE: folk song carriers
i'll list a few sons here one of my favourites is Frog and Mouse which my ggg granddads mother used to sing to him when he was a small child another is called the Death of Parker, the Little Girl down the Road, The Gipsy Countess, Farewell To Kingsbridge, Gosport Beach, The Little Bonny Boy, Don't you go a-rushing,The Bold Trooper The Undutiful Daughter, High Germany, The Cuckold's Song, When Joans Ale was new this is just a few of his many songs i haven't been able to find any here but perhaps they are under a different title. I have seen all the song manuscripts for my ggg granddads songs they are held in Plymouth City Library where Baring-Gould sent copies of everything he had written i was also given some cd's with my ggg granddads songs on, and i was very lucky to find this out while i was researching, it was all because i had been told by a friend that they had seen my surname written in a biography of Baring-Gould when i read the book for myself i realised that the man they were taking about was my ggg granddad. Myself and my family past and present have always had a great love of music.