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- From: lanih@herald.Berkeley.EDU (J. Lani Herrmann)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
- Subject: Re: The Battle of Alma
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 10:30:08 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <1992Dec22.092640.763@mec.ohio.gov>
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- Summary: Another printed reference
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- A parallel set of lyrics appears in the Sam Henry collection, page 90;
- Henry attributes the song to one James Maxwell, a schoolmaster from
- Dungiven (Co. Derry, Northern Ireland), and gives 8 double (8-line)
- stanzas, with no chorus, plus a couple of extra fragments of verses.
- The Sam Henry collection: Sam Henry's Songs of the People,
- ed. Gale Huntington and Lani Herrmann (Athens, GA: Univ. of Georgia
- Press, 1990). 632 + xl p., unacc. melodies; introduction, appendixes,
- glossary, bibliography, discography, indexes of titles and original
- sources; geographical and melodic indexes. $60 cloth, $30 paper (with
- more photographs than the hardcover, and the same acid-free paper).
- If you order, ask for the (loose, hand-drafted) map of Northern Ireland
- that goes with the book. (Unabashed plug!) -- Lani
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