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Thread #56064   Message #874635
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
25-Jan-03 - 10:57 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Waterwitch (trad Australia)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bound away on the water witch
If it is the same song, the Roud index lists two examples only (it may really be just one) at present, appearing in the 1927 and 1966 editions of Doyle's Old Time Poetry and Songs of Newfoundland, as [ Loss of the ] Water Witch, or Heroism of Pouch Cove Fisherman.