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I had recently set up this Work on SHS Lone Green Valley / The Jealous Lover / Cruel Knife which Vernon Dalhart recorded
Today I was setting up another old British traditional called The Cruel Ship's Captain / The Captain's Apprentice and while doing so ran across The Cruel Ship's Carpenter, which I quickly discovered was just a variant of Pretty Polly and they both deal with a jealous lover luring his girl down into the forest (or fields or valleys) and plunging a knife in her and killing her. I will start adding some Cruel Ship's Carpenter songs to Pretty Polly as we don't currently have any.
Anyway, back to why I'm posting this. It appears to me that Work I had set up for Lone Green Valley / Jealous Lover...is really just telling a simplified version of the same tale.
Here's a link of the lyrics to one version of Lone Green Valley
http://www.bobdylanroots.com/lonegree.html
So for the time being I set up the newer Work I had created as an adaptation of Pretty Polly just so they are linked in some fashion. But since we have such a broad range of floating lyrics in most traditionals anyway, I'm wondering if I should delete the Work I created and merge them with the Pretty Polly family.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thx Mark
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Mark