The Yarmouth Ditty

Sent by Lucy Grahame to Lucy Broadwood, April 1904

Lucy Broadwood MSS Collection LEB/5/178/1, LEB/5/178/2, Journal of the Folk-Song Society 2 (1905) pp.113-114

Roud 187

“Learnt from Kentish squire’s daughters, the last of whom died at great age in 1865”.

Mrs Grahame wrote:

This is all of the “Yarmouth Ditty” which I have ever heard. There is, I believe, a good deal more of it, but I have no idea what kind of tragic ending there may be!

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