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In Percy's Folio Manuscript and also printed on seventeenth century broadsides. The story is also told in 'Gest', Child 117. I have only been able to identify one reliable version from oral tradition and that is from the Scotch-Irish family of Miss Martha M Davis of Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia, from her great-grandmother down. Miss Davis had two other rare RH ballads. Her forebears had come from Maryland and then Pennsylvania. Bronson has a note on the lack of an early tune and gives the Davis version as his sole version. | |||
In Percy's Folio Manuscript and also printed on seventeenth century broadsides. The story is also told in 'Gest', Child 117. I have only been able to identify one reliable version from oral tradition and that is from the Scotch-Irish family of Miss Martha M Davis of Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia, from her great-grandmother down. Miss Davis had two other rare RH ballads. Her forebears had come from Maryland and then Pennsylvania. | |||
Latest revision as of 22:34, 14 January 2009
In Percy's Folio Manuscript and also printed on seventeenth century broadsides. The story is also told in 'Gest', Child 117. I have only been able to identify one reliable version from oral tradition and that is from the Scotch-Irish family of Miss Martha M Davis of Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia, from her great-grandmother down. Miss Davis had two other rare RH ballads. Her forebears had come from Maryland and then Pennsylvania. Bronson has a note on the lack of an early tune and gives the Davis version as his sole version.