J. O. 272, 1849) made no review on a version of the brand new tune he published instead a track, and i believe he had not read it sung, due to the fact the guy didn’t hook it up to help you Jack Miller inside the after book quoted significantly more than. This new variation he offered are named the fresh “Beggars out of Ratcliffe Reasonable.” Almost all the brand new beggars’ labels provided in this adaptation is Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( A beneficial Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Training #20, Salzburg, 1973) summarized before statements into around three lines off Jack Miller’s tune, but nothing ones seem to have end in actually an effective tentative identity with people known track. I’ve now produced the one that I am hoping tend to sit. This will be as far as i can carry the subject from the expose.

I would like to thank Peter Kennedy into the recording recording out of Francis McPeake’s track and McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, for their services. In addition stretch courtesy Jennifer Reducing of Western Folklife Center, Collection out of Congress, Washington, D.C. getting transcription of your own tune.

[Sorry, I don’t have persission to place the new track here. In framework it’s slightly such as “Bragandary”, B541, and you will “Derry’s Fair” is actually contempoary toward initially talk about in the event it, however, we don’t genuinely have enough of “Derry’s Fair” to over strongly recommend a potential relationships.]

Bonny Nick the fresh new Currier

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Part dos, mostly Scots

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