Talk:James Maidment

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I've also found his name associated with A North Country Garland from 1824. I am unsure of the exact nature of the publication but it may be a collection of ballads. Shinobu (talk) 06:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was right! I was on the verge of giving up looking for it and then I suddenly found the full text online: [1] I was quite surprised. Notice how it contains songs that are still sung, but with slightly different wordings and couplets missing. They must have been inserted later, I guess. Shinobu (talk) 07:51, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is known as the "folk process" and is a result of oral transmission.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 08:15, 12 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]