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Title
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Poor old horse
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Singer
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Falconer, William
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Notes
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Williams, Alfred: Ms: 'Of all the songs I have none has provided me with greater labours than has this one. The first of the following two copies I obtained rather easily: it was the discovery that another version existed which occasioned the difficulties. For quite a year I have been trying to find the second version complete, but though I am certain of its existence I have as yet been unable to obtain it quite to my satisfaction, and I have assumed that I shall not find it now. This copy I obtained of Charles Tanner, Bampton. I have also heard it with the exception of the last verse at Brize Norton, Taynton and Quenington.'
Williams, Alfred: Ms: 'Of all the songs I have none has provided me with greater labours than has this one. The first of the following two copies I obtained rather easily: it was the discovery that another version existed which occasioned the difficulties. For quite a year I have been trying to find the second version complete, but though I am certain of its existence I have as yet been unable to obtain it quite to my satisfaction, and I have assumed that I shall not find it now. This copy I obtained of Charles Tanner, Bampton. I have also heard it with the exception of the final stanza at Brize Norton, Taynton and Quenington.'
Williams, Alfred: FSUT: 'A very old and well known song. Copy of Charles Tanner, Bampton. Heard also at Brize Norton, Taynton and Quenington.'
Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010.
