Fred,
also a quick look up at the Traditional Ballad Index at
http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/BalladIndexTOC.html
will net you at least
Van Dieman's Land
with some bibliography to go along with it.
Looking for
Dieman*
will get you some other hits.
thanks, jen, for the other sites!
>Fred,
>
>The following are links to my favorite places on the web for ballad
>research -- I hope they help:
>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amsshtml/amsshome.html
>http://www.celtic-otter.com/Ballads/
>http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm
>http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/pub-session-tunes/
>http://members.tripod.com/~songbook1/
>
>Here's a little something on Van Diemen's Land:
>http://www.contemplator.com/folk6/vland.html
>
>Cheers!
>Jen
>
>--- Fred McCormick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I have had a query passed on to me which relates to the repertoire
>> of a Mrs
>> Bridget Walsh of Kilkenny, Ireland. She was a native Gaelic speaker
>> (B
>> 1865. d 1945)and her one song in English had the following couplet;
>>
>> He robbed neither house nor land,
>> But they sent him to Van Diemen's Land.
>>
>> Does anybody know the rest of the song,or know anything of its
>> history?
>>
>> Fred McCormick
>
>
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