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Bold General Wolfe



Bold General Wolfe / Taking Of General Wolfe Words English REFERENCES


Baring Gould

Songs and Ballads of the West MSS CXLVIII

Collected from J peake Liskeard

Garland of country songs p14

" Popular throught England. Words vary . . .but melody hardly varies atall ...... Wolfe fell .... Quebec Sept 13 1759. Bold General Wolfe appears asCatnach Ballad also Fortey and Such and Co" .

Davies Gilbert

RIC Library box of Music - Davies Gilbert Eastbourne 1830 - photcopy, no further information except that it was collected from John Tonkin (of St Erth aged 86) as Belle Isle. 

There are a large number of references to this song in the  in Vaughan Williams memorial library)