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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 1 : Songs, Ballads, Mummers Plays and Shanties
Packet 1 : Scottish and English Songs
Folder 17 : Scottish and English Songs - E

Page 00498 : The Old Carion Crow [song text] Thomas Hunt (contributor), Weald, Bampton, Oxfordshire

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

The Old Carion Crow

Contributor	Thomas Hunt
Index Name	Hunt, Thomas

Place

Weald, Bampton, Oxfordshire

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS p. 00498

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song

First line

The old carion crow he sat upon an oak

In first line 'was settin' in the oak' has been deleted and replaced 'he sat upon an'.

3 stanzas

Contextual Notes

From old drinking cronies, 65 years ago.

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