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Thread #59752   Message #954994
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
18-May-03 - 03:58 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Cheshire May-day song
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Cheshire May-day song
Both songs from the Book of Days are quoted in this earler discussion: Lyr Add: Swinton May Songs #'s 1 and 2. The Old Song was also posted at Lyr Add: SWINTON MAY SONG.

Beside the Leigh book, which was re-printed by E. J. Morton in 1972, two Cheshire May songs are included, with music, in Dorothy Dearnley's Seven Cheshire Folk Songs (OUP 1967). One begins All in this pleasant evening together come are we, and is likely much the same as the one under discussion here. I haven't seen it, so I can't say what tune was used.