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Thread #48931   Message #798964
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
08-Oct-02 - 12:16 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing DT tunes - Part NINE
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing DT tunes - Part NINE
BENTSAE   THE BENT SAE BROWN   Child 71, Roud 3322. Bronson commented: "According to the Gray-Muir MS., National Library of Scotland MS. 2254, there is a tune for this ballad in the Bunyan MS., 1877, p. 2. This MS. has not been discovered." It would appear that no tune has emerged subsequently.

BLARNROS   BLARNEY ROSES (2): This seems to be in the Download DT only; I couldn't find it at Mudcat. It's a duplicate of   BLARNEY ROSES; even the footnote is the same. The only difference between the two files is that the latter includes the tune. Roud 6329.

KEELLAD   BONNY KEEL LADDIE   From Bruce and Stokoe, Northumbrian Minstrelsy, 1882. Midi made from notation in that book. Roud 9021.

COMMSAIL   THE COMMON SAILOR   From Roy Palmer's Oxford Book of Sea Songs. Radriano, who posted it, forgot to mention that this text was noted by Richard Cotten, some time between 1883 and 1886, during his naval service. Tune and chorus are from Stan Hugill, who learned them from his father. ABC and MIDITEXT were posted in the original thread, but these belonged to a different version; midi made, therefore, from Palmer's notation. Roud 16880.

FISHRBOY   FISHER BOY   The file states "There is a variant called The Fisher Laddie." In fact, the DT text is just a rendering into Standard English of O The Bonny Fisher Lad, which can be found in Bruce and Stokoe, Northumbrian Minstrelsy, 1882. Midi made from notation in that book. Roud 3150.