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Follow-up comments: - its* (facepalm) - The excellent folk music website MainlyNorfolk has a fascinating amount of detail about this tune: https://mainlynorfo

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  > ...the sceptical incline to think it may be an invention or refurbishing carried out by some educated antiquarian. If so, he did his work long ago and successfully, for the ballad was already in print in the early years of the seventeenth century... That's an amusing possibility. I'm inclined to assign authorship of JB to "Trad." but do believe I ran into a similar case of a joke running for a few thousand years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39658391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39658391