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Lyr Req: Gossip John

08 May 00 - 04:24 PM (#224802)
Subject: Gossip John
From: GUEST,a.bywaters@virgin.net


08 May 00 - 05:37 PM (#224842)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gossip John
From: GUEST,Bruce O.

"Gossip Joan"? Full text and tune from single sheet issue in Scarce Songs1 file on my website, with some earlier analogues of the song. www.erols.com/olsonw


08 May 00 - 07:16 PM (#224907)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gossip John
From: Stewie

Barry Dransfield recorded 'Gossip Joan' on his excellent 'Be Your Own Man' CD on Rhiannon RHYD5003. The text he used is the one from Frank Purslow's 'Marrowbones' that Bruce mentions in his note to the song in his Scarce Songs file. It was collected from Joseph Vincent from Dorset in 1906.

--Stewie.