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Title
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Creeping Jane
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Singer
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Sawyer, David [Phoebus]
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Notes
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Note 1
Williams, Alfred: Ms / WGS: 'Though this piece was once fairly well known I could only obtain the copy in parts, and with great difficulty. I first heard it at Castle Eaton. Old Thomas King, who was nearly a hundred, told me several verses: in time I obtained the remainder of David Sawyer, the sheep shearer. Creeping Jane was evidently the unexpected winner of a popular race, as the song itself testifies. There are one or two other old songs in the locality which I hope to obtain by and by.'
Note 2
In Verse 5 Line 4 the original text read:
While the others can barely trot
In Verse 6 Line 2 the original text read:
She's lying stiff on the cold ground
Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010.
