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- From: lanih@herald.Berkeley.EDU (J. Lani Herrmann)
- Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
- Subject: Re: Scarborough fair
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 11:50:19 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- Ooops! It's Child #2, not #1. Which makes the hunt for the refrain
- lines much easier: Bronson (Singing Tradition, p. 9) quotes, frinstance,
- Bruce and Stokoe, 1882, pp. 79-80 [Whittingham Fair], which has the same
- refrain lines and a more or less similar melody line.
- Bronson: Bertrand Harris Bronson, The Singing Tradition of Child's
- Popular Ballads (Princeton Univ. Press, 1976).
- Bruce and Stokoe: John Collingwood Bruce and John Stokoe, Northum-
- brian Minstrelsy (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1882; this has been reprinted
- recently in England).
- Superficially yours, Lani
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