"The Maid" and "The Hangman": Myth and Tradition in a Popular Ballad, Volume 21 |
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... Hangman , hangman , howd yo hand , O howd it wide and far ! For theer I see my feyther coomin , Riding through the air . " Feyther , feyther , ha yo brot me goold ? Ha yo paid my fee ? Or ha yo coom to see me hung , Beneath the ...
... Hangman , hangman , howd yo hand , O howd it wide and far ! For theer I see my feyther coomin , Riding through the air . " Feyther , feyther , ha yo brot me goold ? Ha yo paid my fee ? Or ha yo coom to see me hung , Beneath the ...
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... hangman's tree ? " " I ha naw brot yo goold , I ha naw paid yo fee , But I ha coom to see yo hung Beneath tha hangman's tree . " " Hangman , hangman , howd yo hand , O howd it wide and far ! For theer I see my sister coomin , Riding ...
... hangman's tree ? " " I ha naw brot yo goold , I ha naw paid yo fee , But I ha coom to see yo hung Beneath tha hangman's tree . " " Hangman , hangman , howd yo hand , O howd it wide and far ! For theer I see my sister coomin , Riding ...
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... hangman , hold the rope " is derived from " hangman , hold your hand " ( A6 , A31-36 ) , and that the latter in turn is a revision of " hold your hand , Lord Judge " ( A10 , A14 , A15 , and derivatives A2-5 , A8-9 , A13 , C1-11 ) . The ...
... hangman , hold the rope " is derived from " hangman , hold your hand " ( A6 , A31-36 ) , and that the latter in turn is a revision of " hold your hand , Lord Judge " ( A10 , A14 , A15 , and derivatives A2-5 , A8-9 , A13 , C1-11 ) . The ...
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Alan Lomax Alcestis American b1 Dala Eal b3 Cal bl Ba3 b3 Cal ballad text balladry Bertrand Bronson Bertrand H Bronson Cal b1 Dala cante-fable Captain Car century Charon Child Ballad County Dala Eal b3 daughter Eal b3 Fa2b English Fa2a Fa2b father Folk Song Folklore Folksongs Gallows Tree German Gf1b Hal Gfla Hal Gglb gold and fee gold and silver gold to set golden ball Gypsies hangman Heer Halewijn hold your hand I(VI INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES INDIANENSIS injunction Irish Julius Krohn LC-AFS Leadbelly London Losgekaufte Maid Freed MDCCCXX melodic mid-cadence Moses Gaster mother motif n.d. reported narrative North Carolina oral tradition pay my fee prickly bush ransom Reed Smith refrain reported as learned reported by Davis rhyme Sabine Baring-Gould Scottish set me free Settlement School SIGILLUM slack the rope Songs stanza textual Traditional Tunes variants VERITAS victim Virginia Volkslieder yonder Ваб