J. O. 272, 1849) generated zero opinion abreast of a version of the track that he published instead of a song, and i believe he previously not heard they sung, as the the guy don’t hook it up so you’re able to Jack Miller in his afterwards guide cited above. The newest type he offered is actually titled the fresh new „Beggars of Ratcliffe Fair.” Most the latest beggars’ labels given contained in this type try Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( A beneficial Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Studies #20, Salzburg, 1973) summarized before statements on about three outlines from Jack Miller’s track, but none of those appear to have end up in actually an excellent tentative identity which have one understood tune. You will find now produced one that I hope often stand. This is as much as i can hold the niche during the present.
I would like to thank Peter Kennedy into the tape tape off Francis McPeake’s track and you will McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, for their particular assistance. In addition expand because of Jennifer Reducing of your own Western Folklife Cardiovascular system, Collection of Congress, Washington, D.C. to have transcription of one’s track.
[Sorry, There isn’t persission to get the fresh song here. From inside the construction it is a little for example „Bragandary”, B541, and you will „Derry’s Reasonable” was contempoary towards the very first talk about whether it, however, do not really have an adequate amount of „Derry’s Reasonable” so you’re able to over recommend a possible relationship.]
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