J. O. 272, 1849) generated zero feedback abreast of a type of the latest track that he printed without a tune, and i also suspect he previously maybe not read they sung, as the guy did not connect it to Jack Miller in his afterwards guide quoted more than. Brand new adaptation the guy provided is named the new “Beggars away from Ratcliffe Reasonable.” Almost all brand new beggars’ labels considering inside version is Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( A good Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Studies #20, Salzburg, 1973) summarized earlier comments to your about three lines from Jack Miller’s tune, but none ones appear to have trigger actually a beneficial tentative identification that have people known track. We have today latinske lande, der elsker amerikanske mГ¦nd made one which I hope tend to stand. This might be as much as i can hold the subject at the introduce.

I would like to give thanks to Peter Kennedy for the tape recording out of Francis McPeake’s tune and McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, to possess their support. I additionally offer as a result of Jennifer Cutting of your own American Folklife Cardiovascular system, Library out of Congress, Washington, D.C. to possess transcription of one’s song.

[Sorry, I don’t have persission to put the brand new song right here. Inside the structure it is somewhat eg “Bragandary”, B541, and “Derry’s Reasonable” is contempoary into the initially speak about if it, however, do not genuinely have an adequate amount of “Derry’s Reasonable” so you’re able to more than highly recommend a potential matchmaking.]

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