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Thread #50968   Message #774584
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
30-Aug-02 - 08:42 PM
Thread Name: Help: Jolly Beggarman/We'll go no more a-rovin
Subject: RE: Help: Jolly Beggarman/We'll go no more a-rovin
The connection is the chorus; Byron borrowed a couple of lines. The songs are otherwise unrelated. Planxty recorded an arrangement of a Scottish set of The Jolly Beggar (Child 279) if I remember correctly.

The subject has come up a number of times in the past; see, for example Lyr Req: And we'll gang nae mair a roving