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- From: lanih@herald.Berkeley.EDU (J. Lani Herrmann)
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- Subject: Re: Scarborough fair
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 11:33:08 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- Well, it's too late in my day for me to do _all_ your homework for you, but
- the basis of the song is in Professor Francis J. Child's classic compendium
- of the English and Scottish Popular Ballads, where it is Child #1. To
- prove your point, however, you have to trace not only the _form_ of the
- ballad (question, refrain line(s), answer, refrain line(s)) but the specific
- refrain lines ("parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.... and you shall be a true
- lover of mine") as well as the tune: an exercise I will leave for someone who
- is wider awake than I am at the moment. Happy hunting! -- Lani
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