From Samuel Holdstock
Collected by Percy Grainger and Edith Lyttleton, Wittersham, 21st August 1909
Percy Grainger Collection PG/10/50, PG/15/2, PG/15/3; Folk Music Journal 2:5 (1974) pp.349-350
Writing to Percy Grainger on 10th May 1910, Edith Lyttleton noted that Mr Holdstock “was
quite clear that Amsterdon was the place and you will observe near Derbyshire. But I
suspect that he is easily muddled.” Also that in verse 7 he insisted that the words should
be “But still the smiling said to him”, not “But still she smiling said to him” (PG/15/1).
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