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<p>New page: &#039;&#039;&#039;Dellie Norton&#039;&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;&#039;Inez Chandler:&#039;&#039;&#039; were both from Sodom Laurel, although Inez had moved a few miles to the town of Marshall when I met her.  Dellie, who was born in1898, liv...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Dellie Norton&#039;&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;&#039;Inez Chandler:&#039;&#039;&#039; were both from Sodom Laurel, although Inez had moved a few miles to the town of Marshall when I met her.&amp;nbsp; Dellie, who was born in1898, lived up the road from Evelyn and Douston Ramsey, and was the sister of Berzilla Wallin.&amp;nbsp; One of her other sisters, Zipporah Rice sang a version of &#039;&#039;Lord Bateman&#039;&#039; to Cecil Sharp in 1916.&amp;nbsp; Dellie sang in an older exaggerated style and was one of the most impressive singers that I have ever met.&amp;nbsp; She told one interviewer, &quot;I just heard my mother singing and old people way back. I used to could learn a song first time I heard it.&quot;&amp;nbsp; One neighbour told me that, &quot;She loved knowing songs her parents knew and singing along with them.&quot;&amp;nbsp; In many ways she reminded me of the Scottish singer Belle Stewart, both being similarly proud of their respective traditions.&amp;nbsp; Inez sang me a number of short, often fragmentary, songs and it was only years later that I discovered that she had known a complete version of &#039;&#039;The Cherry Tree Carol&#039;&#039;.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Part of the booklet notes, written by Mike Yates, to the Musical Traditions Records CDs Far in the Mountains (MTCD321-4)&#039;&#039;</div>

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