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Thread #60992   Message #977740
Posted By: GUEST,JOhn Moulden
06-Jul-03 - 08:54 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Blooming Rose of Antrim
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Blooming Rose of Antrim'
The Flower of Corby Mill is in Sam Henry but although it has the line "She's the blooming Rose of Antrim and the flower of Corby Mill" there is no connection between it and The Lass of Swansea Town. That is a song which turns up in several places and on ballad sheets with a first line "It was down by ----- barracks,"

The myth that the two songs were connected was started in the notes to the Caedmon/Topic Folksongs of Britain Ceries of LPs.