Halliwell-Phillips ( Popular Rhymes and you will Nursery Stories , p

J. O. 272, 1849) made zero comment on a type of the fresh new tune which he printed in the place of a tune, and i also suspect he had maybe not read they sung, because the guy don’t hook it up so you can Jack Miller inside the later guide cited significantly more than. The brand new variation the guy offered was entitled this new “Beggars out of Ratcliffe Reasonable.” Nearly all new beggars’ brands offered contained in this type try Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( A great Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Studies #20, Salzburg, 1973) summarized earlier comments to your around three contours regarding Jack Miller’s track, but nothing of those appear to have result in actually an effective tentative identification with any known tune. We have now produced one that I’m hoping have a tendency to stand. This is as far as i can carry the niche at establish.

I want to give thanks to Peter Kennedy on the tape recording out of Francis McPeake’s track and McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, to have her assistance. I also continue thanks to Jennifer Cutting of the Western Folklife Center, Collection of Congress, Arizona, D.C. to have transcription of track.

[Sorry, I don’t have persission to get the latest track right here. From inside the design it is a bit eg “Bragandary”, B541, and you may “Derry’s Reasonable” is contempoary into 1st discuss if this, but we do not genuinely have enough of “Derry’s Reasonable” to help you over recommend a potential relationships.]

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