Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

54. The Cherry-Tree Carol

P. 1. Printed in Bullen's Carols and Poems, 1886, p. 29, with the stanzas in this order: A 1-8, B 8, A 9, B 9-15, B 17. Bullen remarks, As regards the text of this carol, no two copies are found to agree, and one is obliged to adopt an eclectic method: p. 252.

A Dutch carol, keeping the palms, J.A. and L.J. Alberdingk-Thijm, Oude en nieuwere Kerstliederen, p. 174, No 87.

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