Halliwell-Phillips ( Prominent Rhymes and you will Nursery Tales , p

J. O. 272, 1849) produced zero comment up on a form of brand new song which he printed as opposed to a tune, and that i think he had not read they sung, since the guy didn’t hook it up to Jack Miller in his afterwards publication quoted more than. The newest variation he provided was called the brand new “Beggars out of Ratcliffe Reasonable.” The majority of the latest beggars’ names given within version are Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( Good Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Training #20, Salzburg, 1973) described earlier comments toward around three lines away from Jack Miller’s tune, but not one of them appear to have trigger actually a great tentative character having people recognized tune. We have now produced one that I really hope tend to stand. This can be in so far as i can hold the topic during the establish.

I wish to give thanks to Peter Kennedy towards the tape tape out of Francis McPeake’s song and you will McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, to own their own aid. I additionally offer as a consequence of Jennifer Reducing of Western Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. to own transcription of the song.

[Disappointed, I don’t have persission to place brand new track right here. Inside the construction it’s quite such “Bragandary”, B541, and “Derry’s Fair” are contempoary towards initially talk about if it, but do not really have enough of “Derry’s Fair” to help you over recommend a possible dating.]

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