Additions and corrections
Notes on the Songs
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Page 134: Croppy Boy
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Mrs Munday did not sing the fourth verse in the Marrow Bones set, and at the time of writing we had not located the source. In fact it came — slightly edited — from Benjamin Arnold's version, ''Twas Early, Early all in the Spring' (Gardiner H636, November 1906), which we had somehow overlooked:
My Lord Kinwall said he'd set me free
If I would tell on my comrades three.
No, sooner than tell on my comrades three
I'd sooner die on the gallows tree.
This was the second stanza of Mr Arnold's six-stanza set. 'The end of l[ine] 8', wrote Gardiner, 'sounded like "the lawkin' wall". This I changed to Lord Kinwall. Joyce [Ancient Irish Music, 62 ] has Lord Cornwall.'
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Page 145: Gossip Joan
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For 'comic operas' read 'ballad operas'.
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Page 168: Sheep Shearing
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We followed Cibber (The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, vol V part 6, 1753) in giving the date of first production of The Country Lasses as 1714. Later sources, however, specify 4 February 1715.
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Page 173: Sprig of Thyme
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Some of our wording is potentially misleading. See Sprig of Thyme for details.
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