J. O. 272, 1849) produced zero comment through to a version of the new tune which he released rather than a track, and i also think he’d perhaps not heard it sung, because the he failed to hook it up so you’re able to Jack Miller in the later on book cited significantly more than. New variation the guy offered try entitled the new “Beggars out-of Ratcliffe Reasonable.” Most the brand new beggars’ brands considering in this version are Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( An effective Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Education #20, Salzburg, 1973) summarized earlier comments on the three traces of Jack Miller’s song, however, nothing of these appear to have end in actually a good tentative identity having one identified tune. I’ve now produced one which I am hoping will stand. It is as much as i can hold the niche in the establish.
I wish to give thanks to Peter Kennedy towards tape tape regarding Francis McPeake’s song and you can McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, to possess their own help. In addition extend through Jennifer Reducing of the American Folklife Heart, Collection out of Congress, Washington, D.C. having transcription of your song.
[Sorry, There isn’t persission to get the fresh track here. During the design it’s a bit including “Bragandary”, B541, and you may “Derry’s Reasonable” is contempoary into the initial speak about whether it, but do not obviously have enough of “Derry’s Reasonable” to more than strongly recommend a prospective relationship.]
Bonny Nick the Currier
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Part 2, generally Scots
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