Carrie Lee - A Bodleian Ballad Halloween - #10

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This ballad from the US appears four times in the Bodleian archive:
http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search/roud/V4914

I have used the lyrics from this 1859 songbook:
https://archive.org/details/beadles1018newy

The only detail I can find on the author is here:
http://composers-classical-music.com/a/AngeloHenry.htm

Not to be confused with the two British sword masters of the same name.

Harry's name is a on a few sets of sheet music:
https://www.antipodean.com/pages/books/16831/henry-angelo-william-h-coulston/folks-that-put-on-airs-as-sung-by-e-f-dixey

No idea who Carrie Lee was, to warrant a song about her death. Henry had a sister Catherine, but no evidence to suggest she was the subject of the song.

Full album here:
https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/album/a-broadside-ballad-halloween

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