Halliwell-Phillips ( Common Rhymes and you will Garden center Tales , p

J. O. 272, 1849) made no review up on a type of the fresh tune which he printed without a track, and that i believe he previously maybe not read it sung, since the guy failed to connect it so you can Jack Miller inside the later guide cited over. New adaptation he gave is actually named the fresh “Beggars of Ratcliffe Fair.” The majority of brand new beggars’ names offered within variation is actually Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( A beneficial Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Degree #20, Salzburg, 1973) summarized before comments for the three lines regarding Jack Miller’s tune, however, none of those seem to have bring about even a beneficial tentative identity having any known track. I’ve today produced one which I really hope will stand. That is as far as i can carry the niche within introduce.

I wish to thank Peter Kennedy towards recording recording off Francis McPeake’s tune and you can McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, having their particular aid. In addition offer because of Jennifer Reducing of one’s American Folklife Center, Library from Congress, Washington, D.C. to possess transcription of your own tune.

[Sorry, There isn’t persission to get the tune right here. Within the construction it’s a bit such “Bragandary”, B541, and “Derry’s Fair” try contempoary to your very first mention if this, but we do not genuinely have an adequate amount of “Derry’s Fair” to help you more than strongly recommend a possible matchmaking.]

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