Re: June Tabor on Mike Harding R2

Tim Rowe wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:38:44 +0000 (UTC), David Kilpatrick
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > she did were not Border ballads, one was. All references June made were 
> > to Child, but she didn't adhere to Child words and freely Southernised 
> > northern English or Scots words, even to the extent of losing principal 
> > rhymes. 
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> And you think such things never happened before Child set them in
> stone? Welcome to the folk process.

Child didn't set these in stone. They predate him by between one and two 
centuries. I'm no stranger to the folk process either (legendary 
inaccuracy locally, in both tune and word!). DK