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- From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
- Subject: Re: Scarborough fair
- X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 07:46:00
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- -=> Julie Rhodes said to All on 12-20-92 18:36 <=-
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- JR> This is not exactly on topic, but there are people here who might
- JR> well be able to help me...I have a bet with my husband that Simon and
- JR> Garfunkle did *not* write Scarborough Fair. I maintain they simply
- JR> arranged it and created "Scarborough Fair/Canticle."
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- JR> What I need is some kind of source I can quote, or otherwise use as
- JR> "proof".
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- Any folk song collection. Try "The English And Scottish Popular Ballads"
- by F.J. Child, or any British Ballads collection in local library. The
- song dates from late Middle Ages, and is PD like nothing else!
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- ... Set your Phrases on to 'Pun'!
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