20 Jan Halliwell-Phillips ( Prominent Rhymes and you can Garden center Tales , p
J. O. 272, 1849) generated no feedback up on a form of the brand new track which he printed in place of a tune, and that i suspect he’d not read it sung, once the he did not hook it up so you can Jack Miller inside the later on guide cited more than. The type he gave try named brand new “Beggars of Ratcliffe Reasonable.” Most this new beggars’ labels offered contained in kritisk hyperlink this adaptation is actually Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( A Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Degree #20, Salzburg, 1973) described before statements into three traces out of Jack Miller’s track, but none of those seem to have trigger even an excellent tentative identity that have one known tune. You will find today made one that I really hope usually remain. That is as much as i can carry the subject within present.
I would like to thank Peter Kennedy into the recording tape out-of Francis McPeake’s tune and you can McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, to own their services. In addition stretch by way of Jennifer Cutting of the American Folklife Cardio, Library from Congress, Washington, D.C. having transcription of track.
[Sorry, I don’t have persission to place the new track here. Inside build it’s quite such as for instance “Bragandary”, B541, and you may “Derry’s Reasonable” try contempoary on first mention whether it, however, we do not genuinely have an adequate amount of “Derry’s Fair” to help you over suggest a potential relationships.]
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