J. O. 272, 1849) made zero feedback up on a type of the latest song that he released rather than a song, and i think he’d perhaps not read it sung, as the guy didn’t connect it so you can Jack Miller in the afterwards publication quoted significantly more than. The latest type the guy offered try entitled brand new “Beggars out of Ratcliffe Reasonable.” Almost all the beggars’ names given in this version are Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( A Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Degree #20, Salzburg, 1973) summarized before comments on the about three traces off Jack Miller’s tune, however, not one of them appear to have trigger actually an excellent tentative personality having any identified track. You will find today produced one that I am hoping tend to stay. It is in so far as i can hold the subject during the expose.
I do want to thank Peter Kennedy to the tape tape off Francis McPeake’s song and you may McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, to have their own assistance. I also offer because of Jennifer Cutting of Western Folklife Center, Collection out-of Congress, Arizona, D.C. getting transcription of the tune.
[Sorry, There isn’t persission to put the fresh song right here. Inside the framework it is somewhat particularly “Bragandary”, B541, and you will “Derry’s Fair” are contempoary with the very first mention if it, but we don’t genuinely have enough of “Derry’s Fair” so you’re able to over suggest a possible relationships.]
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