Halliwell-Phillips ( Well-known Rhymes and Nursery Tales , p

J. O. 272, 1849) produced no remark upon a version of the tune he posted instead a tune, and i also suspect he had not heard they sung, given that he didn’t connect it so you can Jack Miller inside the later on book cited significantly more than. The brand new adaptation the guy provided are named the new “Beggars out of Ratcliffe Reasonable.” The majority of the fresh beggars’ names given within this version are Welsh. H. F. Lippincott ( An excellent Shakespeare Jestbook , Elizabethan Training #20, Salzburg, 1973) summarized earlier statements into the around three contours off Jack Miller’s tune, however, none ones seem to have end up in also a great tentative character which have one recognized track. You will find today generated one that I hope have a tendency to stay. This is certainly as far as i can hold the subject from the establish.

I want to give thanks to Peter Kennedy into the recording recording out-of Francis McPeake’s track and you can McPeake’s grandaughter, Kathleen McPeake, to have their particular services. In addition increase courtesy Jennifer Reducing of Western Folklife Heart, Collection from Congress, Arizona, D.C. to possess transcription of the tune.

[Sorry, I don’t have persission to get the fresh song here. Into the build it’s some eg “Bragandary”, B541, and you can “Derry’s Reasonable” is contempoary with the 1st mention whether or not it, but we do not really have enough of “Derry’s Fair” in order to more strongly recommend a potential relationships.]

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