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21 May 25 - 01:13 PM (#4222982) Subject: Folklore: The Bard of Armagh/The Unfortunate Lad From: RandyL Origin of Streets of The Streets of Laredo? The unsung composer of the West's best-known ballad,https://youtu.be/hIBaKobX-sk?si=h0CWribDbMk20AqS |
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28 May 25 - 12:41 PM (#4223381) Subject: RE: Folklore: The Bard of Armagh/The Unfortunate Lad From: Jack Campin The tune was most popularized by Burns for "The Banks of the Devon". It's an 18th century tune (my guess is that it was originally English), and the version of it Burns got had been used for a Jacobite song about Prince Charlie in disguise, "The Brown Dairymaid", by Alasdair Mac Maighstear Alasdair about 1750. |
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28 May 25 - 01:12 PM (#4223383) Subject: RE: Folklore: The Bard of Armagh/The Unfortunate Lad From: Jack Campin Maybe you could summarize that video in text form? |