• "The Unfortunate Lad" is the correct title of a song printed without a tune on a number of 19th century ballad sheets by Such of London and Carrots and...
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  • published an article claiming that the origins of "The Unfortunate Lad", which he incorrectly termed ‘The Unfortunate Rake’, were to be found in a fragment...
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  • company's policy is not to stop for any reason. Clarence sings the folk song "The Unfortunate Lad", which calms Mrs. Betjeman. He and Thigpen then reveal themselves...
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  • entitled "The Unfortunate Lad", commenting that the song is sometimes known as "The Unfortunate Rake", but with no date or source for the latter title...
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  • broadside entitled "The Unfortunate Lad", which is a version of the British ballad. Some elements of this song closely presage those in the "Streets of Laredo"...
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    the UCL Medical School. The Lock Hospital is just one of the many alternative titles for a popular traditional British folk song, The Unfortunate Lad...
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  • called "The Unfortunate Lad". However, the words sung by Lloyd are not identical to those on the Such broadside. Significantly, in view of the research...
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    "Miss Nelly". The unfortunate lad being an object of complete derision among my companions". Coriakin and Ramandu from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by...
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    subject to the folk process. Folk and mass culture can cross-pollinate each other; a nineteenth-century broadside, "The Unfortunate Lad", became the American...
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  • trying to keep secret from his harsh guardian Mr. Marley. The pair resolve to help the unfortunate lad out. Published: 17 August to 5 October 1957 Writer: Denise...
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