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   From: william.black@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   "David Kilpatrick"  wrote in message   
   news:_tOdnf9Ab98mkAbVnZ2dnUVZ8q_inZ2d@bt.com...   
      
   > Extremely difficult, as already explained. British folk song might yield   
   > more; 'The Twa Corbies' is supposedly Scots, but the language is archaic   
   > northern and there were English versions. 'The Lyke Wake Dirge' may have   
   > roots that old as well.   
      
   Doubtful.   
      
   First recorded by Aubrey in the seventeenth century,  even if it does have   
   Germanic roots in some of the language...   
      
   It could well be,  like 'John Barleycorn', an early academic joke.  The sort   
   of thing that culminated in 'Ossian'...   
      
   --   
   William Black   
      
      
   I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.   
   Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland   
   I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate   
   All these moments will be lost in time,  like icecream on the beach   
   Time for tea.   
      
      
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)