J. O. 272, 1849) generated no comment through to a form of brand new song that he released rather than a song, and i also think he’d perhaps not heard they sung, given that the dette websted guy did not hook it up so you’re able to Jack Miller inside the later book quoted a lot more than. The fresh variation the guy provided is actually named the fresh “Beggars out-of Ratcliffe Reasonable.” Nearly all this new beggars’ names provided within this type is Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( A great Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Degree #20, Salzburg, 1973) described prior to comments into the three outlines out of Jack Miller’s track, but none of those appear to have end up in also an effective tentative identification having any identified song. We have now made the one that I am hoping often sit. This will be as far as i can carry the niche within establish.
I wish to thank Peter Kennedy to your recording recording out-of Francis McPeake’s tune and you may McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, to possess their unique aid. I additionally offer because of Jennifer Reducing of one’s Western Folklife Center, Collection of Congress, Arizona, D.C. getting transcription of the track.
[Sorry, There isn’t persission to place the fresh new song right here. Into the construction it’s quite like “Bragandary”, B541, and you will “Derry’s Fair” are contempoary to the very first talk about if this, however, we don’t obviously have an adequate amount of “Derry’s Fair” so you’re able to more suggest a prospective relationships.]
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Part dos, primarily Scots
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