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Title
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Lady and her apprentice boy
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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: 'Take love away and life would be defaced, wrote one of our bards of Queen Elizabeth's time. At least literature would be defaced. And I do not know how the poets themselves, and especially the ballad writers, would have fared without it for a subject. We have met with the apprentice boy before. Here he obtained promotions and for a guinea in a lottery, won £30,000. This opened the road to 'Cupid's Garden' but we knew beforehand that gold had power to break down the most formidable walls and barriers. Words of my old sheep shearing friend, David Sawyer, who has just celebrated his eighty fourth birthday.'
Note 2
Sawyer was born in 1833 and this would put the date of collection into 1917. Williams published his last part of his work on folk songs on 3rd September, 1916. All this shows is that older people can get confused about their age.
Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010.
