<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 10/3/01 7:10:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time, pharwar@bellsouth.net writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I recall that this was a well-known song for most
<BR>of the group there, was written in 12th? cent. Scotland, concerning
<BR>the courting of a young lady by a much older man, and that the Bard
<BR>singing it at this event had learned it from a folk singer in the
<BR>1970s.</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>18th century song, which I learned in the 1990's from folsinger/folklorist Ed Miller, who learned it sometime earlier (1960s?) from folksinger Jeannie Robertson. But that's the song!
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<BR>Ed sings that one verse with "chair/flair" but the version I found dated to the 1700s used "stool/fool." Other than that, they were the same.
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<BR>Glad you liked the song!
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<BR>Aye,
<BR>Eogan
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<BR>Tighearn Eoghan Og mac Labhrainn, OPE, CP
<BR>Sacred Stone Pursuivant
<BR>Web Master et A&S Minister, Hawkwood
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