The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #54665 Message #847631
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
15-Dec-02 - 01:00 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Flying Cloud
Subject: RE: Origins: The Flying Cloud
The earliest set listed in the Roud Index (where it is number 1802) which has a definite date is one which Gavin Greig got from James Ewan (somewhere in Aberdeenshire) in 1906, called William Hollander. (Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection, vol.I p.93, 1981). The song is very rare in Britain and Ireland, though; most examples seem to be American or Canadian, and to date from the 1930s or later.