The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #17061   Message #868772
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
17-Jan-03 - 12:14 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: The Basket of Eggs
Subject: RE: DTStudy: The Basket Of Eggs
What I meant was that only one verse of the song as it appeared in the Penguin book was taken from the Journal, and at the moment I don't know if the other verses came from Burstow or from some other (un-named) source. There are a number of vexed questions of the kind relating to Lloyd and Vaughan Williams' editing of the song texts, which was by no means as transparent as Lloyd claimed in his introduction. As an extreme example, nobody, not even Lloyd, knew where RVW got the Blacksmith text they published. Not from the singer who supplied the tune, at any rate.