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Title
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Girls of Gloucestershire
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Singer
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Hope, Charles Frederick
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Notes
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Note 1
Williams, Alfred: Ms / WGS: 'This was popular in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, in which latter county Oxfordshire was substituted for Gloucestershire in the song. No doubt it was popular in other parts where the name of the county fitted in with the rhyme. Words of Charles Hope, Filkins.'
Note 2
In Verse 6 Line 3 the WGS text is:
Silk scarves and dandy ribbons to tie up their lovely hair,
Note 3
This appears on the LP: Portway Pedlars [Len and Barbara Berry]: In the greenwood. Greenwich Village, GVR 229, 1984. Side 2, Track 1 [Girls of Oxfordshire]. The tune was composed by Barbara Berry.
Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010.
