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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 20 : Scottish and English Songs - H

Page 00774 : Leadbury Parson [song text] Sam Bennet (contributor)

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

Leadbury Parson

Contributor	Sam Bennet
Index Name	Bennett, Sam

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS p. 00774

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song

First line

In Leadbury town in Oxfordshire-Herefordshire

Note states song set to an old Ilmington morris dance tune. Text heavily amended by hand. Handwritten note names James Bak[?]er.

3 stanzas

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