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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 2 : Miscellaneous Notes, Lectures, Words, Music and Correspondence
Packet 2 : Miscellaneous Field Typescripts and Manuscripts
Folder 48 : Miscellaneous Field Typescripts and Manuscripts - E

Page 04911 : Blow the Man Down [song text] Frank Waters (contributor), Sailor's Snug Harbour, Staten Island, NY

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

Blow the Man Down

Contributor	Frank Waters
Index Name	Waters, Frank

Place

Sailor's Snug Harbour, Staten Island, NY

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS p. 04911

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song - Child ballad

Alternative title

The Farmer's Curst Wife

First line

On the outskirts of Bristol there lived a wicked old dame

10 stanzas

Type Number

Child 278, The Farmer's Curst Wife

Contextual Notes

'Legend similar to that of Grimm in "Bruderlustig", and that of Bechstein in "Der Schmid[?] von Juterborg", Ahrenlese'.

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