Halliwell-Phillips ( Common Rhymes and Nursery Reports , p

J. O. 272, 1849) made no remark up on a version of the fresh new track which he released versus a track, and i also suspect he’d perhaps not heard they sung, since he didn’t hook it up so you’re able to Jack Miller in his later on publication cited more than. The fresh version the guy offered is titled the latest “Beggars regarding Ratcliffe Reasonable.” Almost all the fresh new beggars’ brands offered in this variation are Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( A Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Studies #20, Salzburg, 1973) summarized earlier comments towards the around three american dating Yerevan women traces regarding Jack Miller’s track, but none of these appear to have end up in actually a tentative identification with people identified song. You will find today produced the one that I am hoping have a tendency to stay. This is as much as i can carry the subject at the establish.

I wish to thank Peter Kennedy to the tape tape off Francis McPeake’s track and McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, for her aid. In addition increase compliment of Jennifer Reducing of Western Folklife Center, Collection out of Congress, Washington, D.C. to have transcription of song.

[Sorry, I don’t have persission to get the fresh tune here. For the build it’s a little instance “Bragandary”, B541, and you will “Derry’s Fair” was contempoary on the first mention whether it, but do not really have enough of “Derry’s Reasonable” so you’re able to more than highly recommend a potential relationships.]

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