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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
lamarca	Origins/Versions: Matty Groves / Mattie Groves (60* d)	RE: Matty Groves	06 Dec 99
Does anyone know from where Nic Jones got the tune for his version of Little Musgrave (still my favorite tune of all the versions I've heard)? Christy Moore says he took Jones' tune but used his own variant of the words for the version on Planxty's Woman I Loved So Well. Jerry Epstein says it sounds a lot like Richard Dyer-Bennett's tune (which I've never heard). I've been singing this for awhile, putting together my favorite verses from all the versions I've heard to Nic Jones' tune - it was the first really long ballad I ever learned, and it took me a lot more than one listening to remember it!

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