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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Jun 9, 2022, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2851A248002795EE70000214938F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > However a (probably older) version known in Newfoundland is a   
   > love song. It is sung by Laverne Squires on her posthumous album   
   > Laverne Squires: A Tribute   
   > Limited Edition: Collection of Folk Songs and Ballads from the Outports   
   > though I wouldn’t call it a Tribute since unlike many tribute albums   
   > it is her doing the singing, not others singing her songs, but anyway   
   > the album was released in memory of her and her friend Noel Dinn.   
   >   
   > This old version contains a line that mentions “rose of mead”. I   
   > used to think it was “rose of Medb” and related it to my   
   > blue rose vision pre-dawn on Sept. 6, 1991 but perhaps   
   > that is stretching it a bit.   
      
   Also http://gestsongs.com/17/foggydew1.htm   
   says “rose of red” but I am sure Laverne and at least one other   
   singer (Catherine Wright) I have heard sing it have sung   
   “rose of mead” or, less likely, “rose of Medb”.   
      
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