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Formatsong text
TitleNine Joys of Mary
ContributorMiss Bessie Wallace
Index NameWallace, Miss Bessie
Source Document Jim Thomas MS Bibliography
Reference Code AFC 1972/001, MS pp. 00849- 00850

Scope and Content Notes

Genre song - carol
First lineThe first good joy our Mary had

12 stanzas

Contextual Notes

Song from Jim Thomas MS and sung by Bessie Wallace. She learned it from Jim Thomas, her grandfather, of Union St, Camborne, Cornwall, who died in March 1934 at the age of 85, who learned from tradition and could not read music.


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