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Title
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I wandered by a brookside
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Singer
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Sirman, Leah Miss
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Notes
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Note 1
Williams, ALfred: FSUT: 'A sweet old song. I first heard of it through David Sawyer, the shearer, whose mother sang it over eighty years ago. I was recently fortunate enough to obtain the whole piece through Miss Leah Serman, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire. She learned it of her grandmother, many years ago.'
Note 2
Attached to the manuscript is a letter, probably in the hand of Leah Serman, addressed to Williams at Dryden Cottage, South Marston. The Census 1901 has the spelling Sirman.
Note 3
This appears on the LP: Portway Pedlars [Len and Barbara Berry]: In the greenwood. Greenwich Village, GVR 229, 1984. Side 2, Track 2. The tune was composed by Barbara Berry.
Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010.
