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Elsie Marley
Found in ElsieMarley_1.abc
from the John Chambers abc collection
X: 5 T:Elsie Marley M:6/8 L:1/8 Z:Geoff Wright <brackenriggband:hotmail.com> tradtunes 2002-5-4 N:John Adams (Village Music Project) writes: N:The thing that ties Elsie Marley to Northumbria is its known history N:as stated in Bruce and Stokoe's Northumbrian Minstrelsy. N:Nine verses of the song are followed by the information that Elsie N:Marley was an innkeepers wife in Chester Le Street. Apparently she N:was drowned in 1768 but the song about an incident in her eventful N:life was still popular enough to be included in Ritson's 'Bishopric N:Garland' of 1784. N:If it wasn't for that recorded fact the tune could well have N:originated in another place, K:G |:Bc"G"B G2G|G2g gdc|BcB G2G|"F"A2=f fcA| Bc"G"B GBd|gag gdB|"C"cac Bg"G"B|"F"A2=f fcA:| |:B2"G"c d2d|def g2d|B2c dcB|"F"A2B cBA| B2"G"c d2d|efg dcB|"C"cac Bg"G"B|"F"A2=f fcA:|
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