Halliwell-Phillips ( Prominent Rhymes and you can Garden center Tales , p

J. O. 272, 1849) produced no opinion abreast of a form of the newest tune he released in the place of a track, and i also suspect he’d maybe not read they sung, because the the guy failed to hook it up to Jack Miller inside the after guide cited above. This new version the guy gave try entitled the newest “Beggars regarding Ratcliffe Reasonable.” The majority of the fresh new beggars’ names given in this adaptation is Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( A beneficial Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Studies #20, Salzburg, 1973) described earlier comments on the three outlines regarding Jack Miller’s song, but nothing of these appear to have bring about actually a great tentative identification with one understood track. I’ve now generated one which I’m hoping will stand. This might be in so far as i can carry the topic in the introduce.

I want to give thanks to Peter Kennedy towards the tape tape of Francis McPeake’s song and you will McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, for their support. In addition offer because of Jennifer Reducing of American Folklife Center, Library from Congress, Washington, D.C. to possess transcription of your own track.

[Sorry, I don’t have persission to get the fresh track here. Inside the structure it’s somewhat like “Bragandary”, B541, and you may “Derry’s Fair” is actually contempoary to your very first mention if this, however, we don’t really have an adequate amount of “Derry’s Reasonable” to help you over strongly recommend a potential dating.]

Bonny Nick the fresh Currier

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Part 2, mostly Scots

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