Halliwell-Phillips ( Well-known Rhymes and you can Nursery Stories , p
J. O. 272, 1849) produced no opinion through to a version of the fresh track that he released versus a song, and that i believe he previously not heard it sung, given that the guy don’t connect it in order to Jack Miller inside the later publication quoted over. The latest type he gave is actually named the fresh new „Beggars away from Ratcliffe Reasonable.” The majority of brand new beggars’ names considering inside type is Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( A beneficial Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Knowledge #20, Salzburg, 1973) summarized before comments to the around three lines off Jack Miller’s song, but not one of those seem to have bring about even a beneficial tentative identity which have one known tune. You will find today produced one which I am hoping have a tendency to stay. This is certainly as far as i can carry the topic at introduce.
I would like to thank Peter Kennedy for the tape tape of Francis McPeake’s song and you will McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, to have their support. In addition expand as a result of Jennifer Reducing of your American Folklife Center, Library from Congress, Washington, D.C. to possess transcription of tune.
[Sorry, I don’t have persission to get new song here. Into the construction it is a little eg „Bragandary”, B541, and „Derry’s Reasonable” are contempoary on very first mention whether it, but we do not obviously have enough of „Derry’s Fair” to more than recommend a potential relationships.]
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