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Thread #59752   Message #954581
Posted By: greg stephens
17-May-03 - 06:39 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Cheshire May-day song
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Cheshire May-day song
This looks rather like a literary concoction to me, rather than a traditional folk song. The first and third lines of each verse are surely traditional lines from the Swinton May Song/Padstow Maysong family of processional/money raising songs, but the second and fourth lines seem to me to come from a different style. They are also in a different metre from the Swinton Maysong tune.