Nigel Gatherer wrote:
> A singer friend of mine learned a version of the song "Lovely Molly"
> which starts:
> I once was a ploughboy but a soldier I'm now
My friend has told me she's found out a little more. The song, probably
Irish in origin, was collected by Hamish Henderson (in Kyle or
Kintyre?); he taught it to Jeanie Robertson, from whom Lizzie Higgins
learned it.
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Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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