Well the two from the Brazil family are both called that, but the Bristol version is "The Fields Of Hunting" which is a great title, if you really want to...
... printed ... or ... not ... Titles found in several different versions may, perhaps, give a better indication of the 'original' - particularly if they are...
Steve I suspect that this is but one of many similar dilemmas. My recommendation is, firstly, think what the purpose of master titles is - to direct as many...
I wonder if anyone can help with the attached. We know that it is widely used, as Judith suggests, as a demonstration of alliteration in teaching poetry and...
In a message dated 02/08/2006 08:39:40 GMT Daylight Time, jmoul81075@... writes: My small contribution to this - it is certainly fairly widely known, at ...
I'm having too many bites at this cherry but using Tewkesbury as the place name in google produces good information, many citing it as a tongue twister - but...
Hi, Not just alliteration but used as an example of a tongue twister.as well? Certainly "googling" for it results finds it in a number of databases of tongue...
In a message dated 02/08/2006 09:13:05 GMT Daylight Time, dave@... writes: Not just alliteration but used as an example of a tongue twister.as well?...
John, you are amazing! But you really surprised me by getting back to a Baring-Gould link with 'The Annotated Mother Goose' - albeit the grandson! Thanks...
Well, That's that one settled. The erudtion of the folk on here amaze me!! Next! Dave ... From: MARTIN GRAEBE To: Tradsong@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday,...
Martin, Yes I think you and Chris may be right. I'm being persuaded that way. You can't possibly have passed 60. That would make you older than me. That can't...
Dear Fellow Tradsongers, Greetings! I recently downloaded from Project Gutenberg the Rev. Richard H. Barham's "Ingoldsby Legends" dating from the early...
And I bought one as part of the purchase of a library and I never knew why the seller had it in their collection. One lives and learns. Thanks Lewis. Ingoldsby...
Subscribers to my Folk Song Index may like to know that the Broadside Index has also now been mounted on the excellent Vaughan Williams Memorial Library ...
As well as being one of the speakers at the Cecil Sharp House Meeting of TSF on 2nd September, I maintain a small specialist stock of books and recordings of...
Third List - initially for those who will be at C# House on 2nd Sept. Music (mainly northern) Armagh Pipers' Club: Song of the Chanter early effort by the...
Here is the first of three lists of items available from Ulstersongs. I have been requested to publish each one also to the Indiana based ballad-l. However,...
Again - priority will be given to orders from those who will be at the Traditional Song Forum Meeting in London. CASSETTES and CDs Most CDs are £13 or £10,...
Greetings! You will no doubt have noticed that the song whose title is the subject of this message is not traditional, though it is arguably composed in...
Sandy Easton
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Aug 14, 2006 7:53 pm
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Hello, everybody! The Banks Of The Sweet Primroses is a beautiful song, but there's something about it which has puzzled me for some time. In a nutshell: how...
Sandy Easton
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response from Simon Nicol: No, surely the song never had another tune. You may be confused in that "Farewell Farewell" had its tune nicked from "Willy o'...
Thanks for that, Heather. I did realise the relationship between Farewell Farewell and Willie O' Winsbury, but I distinctly remember the assertion being made...
Sandy Easton
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Aug 17, 2006 11:46 pm
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... something about it which has puzzled me for some time. In a nutshell: how do you get from the second-last verse to the last one by any sort of logical...
Good man yourself, Chris! I may well benefit from the good work you have done in filling out the story by the insertion of those verses. As for the tune, I...
Sandy Easton
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Greetings Trad Mag group This is the first communication from this member and I'm not sure if I'm doing the technical bit correctly but here goes! I was...
Dear Anne, Greetings, and welcome to our little group! You make an interesting point. In the first (1715) edition of Watts' "Divine Songs" there were, as you...
Dear Tradsongers, Help! For the coming academic year I am required to teach a first year undergraduate module which,among other things, investigates...
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