Willie of Winsbury - Child Ballad #100

I have taken bits of version B of this Child Ballad and swapped them in version A, which has some rhyming and structural issues. Versions A-I all appear in Child's volume here:
https://archive.org/details/englishscottishp22chilrich/page/400

Child speculates that this may have been written about James V of Scotland.

Photo of Chris Hemsworth from the new Thor Movie Trailer as a fill-in for a modern 'Willie' equivalent.

Thanks to Orit and her daughter Daphnic for inspiring todays recording.

Lots of recordings here on Mainly Norfolk:
https://mainlynorfolk.info/anne.briggs/songs/willieowinsbury.html

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