Halliwell-Phillips ( Common Rhymes and you can Garden center Stories , p
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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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