J. O. 272, 1849) produced zero remark through to a form of the fresh new tune that he posted in the place of a song, and that i suspect he previously maybe not heard they sung, given that the guy did not connect it to Jack Miller within his afterwards guide quoted a lot more than. New version the guy provided is actually entitled the fresh new “Beggars out of Ratcliffe Reasonable.” Almost all the new beggars’ brands given within this variation was Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( Good Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Degree #20, Salzburg, 1973) described before statements to the around three lines away from Jack Miller’s track, however, nothing of these seem to have end in also an effective tentative identity having one recognized track. You will find today produced the one that I really hope commonly remain. This can be in so far as i can hold the topic from the expose.

I do want to thank Peter Kennedy on tape recording off Francis McPeake’s tune and you may McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, for their own services. I additionally stretch courtesy Jennifer Cutting of the Western Folklife Center, Collection off Congress, Arizona, D.C. getting transcription of tune.

[Sorry, There isn’t persission to get the fresh track here. Inside structure it’s slightly such as for example “Bragandary”, B541, and you will “Derry’s Reasonable” was contempoary to your 1st mention whether it, but we do not obviously have enough of “Derry’s Reasonable” so you’re able to more than strongly recommend a prospective relationship.]

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