Halliwell-Phillips ( Popular Rhymes and Nursery Stories , p

J. O. 272, 1849) produced no comment abreast of a version of this new track that he published in place of a track, and i also believe he’d perhaps not read they sung, due to the fact he did not connect it so you’re able to Jack Miller in the afterwards guide quoted above. The latest variation he provided is called new „Beggars out-of Ratcliffe Fair.“ Most the fresh new beggars’ names considering contained in this adaptation are Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( A Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Knowledge #20, Salzburg, 1973) described before statements on the about three traces of Jack Miller’s tune, but none ones appear to have trigger actually a beneficial tentative character that have any understood track. You will find now generated one which I hope often remain. This really is as much as i can carry the niche from the expose.

I want to give thanks to Peter Kennedy to the tape tape away from Francis McPeake’s tune and you will McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, to own their unique support. I also expand by way of Jennifer Reducing of the American Folklife Cardiovascular system, Collection off Congress, Arizona, D.C. having transcription of the song.

[Disappointed, I don’t have persission to put the new song here. Within the structure it’s quite including „Bragandary“, B541, and you may „Derry’s Reasonable“ try contempoary on first discuss when it, however, we do not really have enough of „Derry’s Reasonable“ to more than strongly recommend a possible relationships.]

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Part 2, mostly Scots

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