Halliwell-Phillips ( Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales , p

J. O. 272, 1849) made zero feedback on a type of the track that he published versus a tune, and i believe he’d perhaps not heard it sung, as the guy did not connect it so you’re able to Jack Miller within his after guide quoted significantly more than. New version the guy provided are titled the fresh “Beggars away from Ratcliffe Reasonable.” Most the fresh new beggars’ labels considering contained in this adaptation is actually Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( A Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Degree #20, Salzburg, 1973) described prior to comments to the about three lines of Jack Miller’s song, however, nothing of these seem to have end up in actually an excellent tentative character that have one known track. I have today produced one that I am hoping will remain. This will be in so far as i can carry the topic during the introduce.

I want to thank Peter Kennedy on the recording recording out-of Francis McPeake’s track and you can McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, to possess her services. I also expand because of Jennifer Reducing of the American Folklife Cardio, Library out of Congress, Arizona, D.C. having transcription of tune.

[Disappointed, I don’t have persission to put the fresh new tune here. When you look at the build it’s a bit such as for instance “Bragandary”, B541, and you will “Derry’s Fair” is contempoary into the first discuss whether or not it, but we don’t obviously have an adequate amount of “Derry’s Reasonable” to help you more highly recommend a prospective relationships.]

Bonny Nick the brand new Currier

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Point dos, primarily Scots

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