Recorded by Mike Yates, St Marys Cray, 1973
Mike Yates collection, British Library Sound Archive C 796/43 (VWML 13 CDA Yates)
Roud 47479
The words are so fragmentary that it’s not possible to say of which song this is a version. Steve Roud has therefore – reluctantly – assigned the song its very own Roud number.
Recorded by Mike Yates, St Marys Cray, 1973
Mike Yates collection, British Library Sound Archive C 796/43 (VWML 13 CDA Yates)
From Joseph Jones
Recorded by Mike Yates, Orpington, October 1973
Folk Music Journal Vol 3 No 1 (1975)
From Joseph Jones
Recorded by Mike Yates, Kent, January 1975
Folk Music Journal Vol 3 No 1 (1975)
Although a comparatively rare song, versions have been collected in East Anglia, Yorkshire, Scotland and Ireland, while Steve Gardham has found the same story in a seventeenth century black-letter ballad, ‘The Crost Couple’.
The original recording from which this transcription made does not seem to have been included in the copies of Mike Yates’ tapes lodged with the British Library or the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.
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