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Although sometimes suggested to be an English song of medieval origin, and still described as such in some popular works, it is more likely derived from popular 18th and 19th century printed broadsides, with the most likely immediate precursor being the 19th century "Paddy's Ramble to London".<sup id="cite_ref-randolph304_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-randolph304-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-rammel_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rammel-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The British musicologist <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Sharp" title="Cecil Sharp">Cecil Sharp</a> collected the best-known version of the song in 1917 in the area of the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Kentucky_Coalfield" title="Eastern Kentucky Coalfield">Eastern Kentucky Coalfield</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-rammel_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rammel-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Josiah Combs had previously collected it in the same area, and other versions were found later in the century by Creighton in <a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia" title="Nova Scotia">Nova Scotia</a>, by Randolph in <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a>, and even in <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-randolph304_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-randolph304-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, very closely related songs, such as the stage comedy song "The Old Grey Mare", were in fact well known in print form in America during the 19th century. <sup id="cite_ref-loc_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jaf_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jaf-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lyrics">Lyrics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nottamun_Town&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Lyrics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nearly all modern versions of the song are based on the version recorded in the 1950s by <a href="/wiki/Jean_Ritchie" title="Jean Ritchie">Jean Ritchie</a>, the text of which was originally collected by Sharp in 1917 from the singing of Ritchie's older sister Una.<sup id="cite_ref-mcguinn_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcguinn-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Modern versions often include lyrics (such as the phrase "mule roany mare" and the first two lines of the fifth verse) first introduced, and later copyrighted, by Jean Ritchie herself:<sup id="cite_ref-mcguinn_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcguinn-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd>In fair Nottamun Town, not a soul would look up</dd> <dd>Not a soul would look up, not a soul would look down</dd> <dd>Not a soul would look up, not a soul would look down</dd> <dd>To show me the way to fair Nottamun Town</dd></dl> <dl><dd>I rode a grey horse, a mule roany mare</dd> <dd>Grey mane and grey tail, green striped on his back</dd> <dd>Grey mane and grey tail, green striped on his back</dd> <dd>There weren't a hair on her but what was coal black</dd></dl> <dl><dd>She stood so still, She threw me to the dirt</dd> <dd>She tore-a my hide, and she bruised my shirt</dd> <dd>From saddle to stirrup I mounted again</dd> <dd>And on my ten toes I rode over the plain</dd></dl> <dl><dd>Met the King and the Queen and the company more</dd> <dd>Came a riding behind and a walking before</dd> <dd>Come a stark naked drummer, a-beating a drum</dd> <dd>With his heels in his bosom come marching along</dd></dl> <dl><dd>They laughed and they smiled, not a soul did look gay</dd> <dd>They talked all the while, not a word they did say</dd> <dd>I bought me a quart to drive gladness away</dd> <dd>And to stifle the dust, for it rained the whole day</dd></dl> <dl><dd>Sat down on a hard, hot cold frozen stone</dd> <dd>Ten thousand stood round me yet I was alone</dd> <dd>Took my hat in my hand, for to keep my head warm</dd> <dd>Ten thousand got drowned that never was born</dd></dl> <p>Although Ritchie believed the song had only been preserved in her family,<sup id="cite_ref-mcguinn_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcguinn-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> very similar versions were known locally only a few years earlier. The Kentucky song collector Josiah Combs found a text printed in 1910 in a chapbook <i>Wehman Bros' Good Old-Time Songs, No. 1</i> as "Fair Nottingham Town", and collected a nearly identical version in 1910 from State Senator Hilliard Smith, including additional stanzas, under the title "Fair Nottamon Town":<sup id="cite_ref-randolph303_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-randolph303-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd>As I went down to Nottamon fair</dd> <dd>I rode a <a href="/wiki/Stallion" title="Stallion">stone horse</a> they called the gray mare;</dd> <dd>She had a green <a href="/wiki/Primitive_markings#Dorsal_stripe" title="Primitive markings">list</a> down her back:</dd> <dd>And there wasn't a hair but what was coal black.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>She stood still, but she threw me in the mud</dd> <dd>She daubed my hide and bruised my shirt,</dd> <dd>From saddle to stirrup I mounted her again,</dd> <dd>And on my ten toes rode over the plain.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>I met the king and the queen and a company more</dd> <dd>A-riding behind and walking before,</dd> <dd>And a stark naked drummer a-beating his drum,</dd> <dd>With his heels in his ass a-marching along.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>I asked them the way to fair Nottamon town,</dd> <dd>They were so mad not a soul look-ed down-</dd> <dd>They were so mad not a soul look-ed down</dd> <dd>To tell me the way to fair Nottamon town.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>When I got there, no one could I see,</dd> <dd>They all stood around a-looking at me;</dd> <dd>I called for a quart to drive gladness away,</dd> <dd>To stifle the dust - it had rained the whole day.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>I sat on a cold hot frozen stone,</dd> <dd>Ten thousand standing 'round me, yet I was alone;</dd> <dd>Ten thousand got drownded before they were born,</dd> <dd>I took my hat in my hand to keep my head warm.</dd></dl> <dl><dd>Then I'll take my black horse and a-fishing I'll go,</dd> <dd>A-fishing I'll go, whether or no;</dd> <dd>My fish they turned over, my wagon did spill -</dd> <dd>I'll sell my gray mare - I'll be damned if I will!</dd></dl> <dl><dd>The first girl I have, it shall be a boy,</dd> <dd>Returned to the house of my first joy;</dd> <dd>The first house I live in, it shall be a hog-pen,</dd> <dd>And what-in-the-hell will become of me then?</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nottamun_Town&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There has been a great deal of speculation on the song's origins and meaning; its reference to <a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a> has been taken to suggest an origin in England. One often stated theory, originally suggested to Ritchie by <a href="/wiki/English_Folk_Dance_and_Song_Society" title="English Folk Dance and Song Society">EFDSS</a> director Douglas Kennedy, is that it is of medieval origin and derives from a song associated with an English <a href="/wiki/Mummers%27_play" title="Mummers' play">Mummers' play</a>, which often featured absurd topsy-turvy imagery, though Ritchie was unable to find records supporting this.<sup id="cite_ref-harvey_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-harvey-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mcguinn_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcguinn-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A second is that it might refer to the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a>, in which <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">Charles I of England</a> raised his first army around Nottingham: a popular theme at the time with diarists and pamphleteers was 'The World Turned Upside Down'.<sup id="cite_ref-mcguinn_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcguinn-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, there is no particular evidence of any 'hidden' meaning in "Nottamun Town", and broadly similar "songs of marvels and lies" are very common; "Nottamun Town" appears to be a late example<sup id="cite_ref-gilchrist_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gilchrist-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and no evidence has been found supporting a connection with mumming or Nottingham itself.<sup id="cite_ref-mcguinn_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcguinn-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A more likely interpretation is that the words of "Nottamun Town" and other American versions ultimately derive from the early 18th century <a href="/wiki/Broadside_ballad" title="Broadside ballad">broadside</a> "Teague's Ramble", or "Teague's Ramble to the Camp", a story of an Irish soldier travelling to England which includes a series of very similar contradictions and absurdities.<sup id="cite_ref-broadside_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-broadside-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Teague's Ramble" and various imitations were printed in several English or Scottish broadsides of c.1740, as well as in <a href="/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston, Massachusetts">Boston, Massachusetts</a> as early as 1748;<sup id="cite_ref-boorstin_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boorstin-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> its tune was used to set a number of other songs and was performed "with variations" on the <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a> stage in 1750.<sup id="cite_ref-greene180_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greene180-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The song was one of a large number of the period mocking the Irish,<sup id="cite_ref-sanjek_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sanjek-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although its subject matter of an Irishman joining the King's army at <a href="/wiki/Salisbury_Plain" title="Salisbury Plain">Salisbury Plain</a> and references to "Holland's Genever" suggest it may specifically originate as an anti-Catholic satire on the <a href="/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" title="Glorious Revolution">Revolution of 1688</a>, when there were rumours of <a href="/wiki/Irish_Fright" title="Irish Fright">Irish armies being sent to England</a>. </p><p>By the early 19th century a popular broadside version called "Paddy's Ramble to London" was circulating in America, and may have formed the source for "Nottamun Town".<sup id="cite_ref-rammel_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rammel-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The text was adapted by singers to include local or topical references, such as the phrase "ten thousand drownded" apparently added in reference to the 1889 <a href="/wiki/Johnstown_Flood" title="Johnstown Flood">Johnstown Flood</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-randolph303_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-randolph303-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> another version has the gray mare attending the <a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bull_Run" title="First Battle of Bull Run">Battle of Bull Run</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-randolph303_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-randolph303-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other than mid-19th century printed versions such as "The Old Grey Mare",<sup id="cite_ref-shamrock_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shamrock-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> variants similar to Ritchie's were collected elsewhere in America during the 20th century. These include "Nottingham Fair", a version collected in 1941 in <a href="/wiki/Walnut_Shade,_Missouri" title="Walnut Shade, Missouri">Walnut Shade, Missouri</a> from the singing of Charles Ingenthron; a 1969 version from the <a href="/wiki/Ozarks" title="Ozarks">Ozarks</a>, "Adam Ham Town", from the singing of Ollie Gilbert;<sup id="cite_ref-maxhunter_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maxhunter-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and another collected from Bill Jackson, a migrant worker in <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> in 1941, "That Awkward Old Song".<sup id="cite_ref-loc2_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loc2-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A variant was even collected in <a href="/wiki/Newfoundland" class="mw-redirect" title="Newfoundland">Newfoundland</a> under the title "Paddy Backwards". However, most commercial versions postdating the <a href="/wiki/American_folk-music_revival" class="mw-redirect" title="American folk-music revival">American folk-music revival</a>, such as the well-known versions recorded by <a href="/wiki/Fairport_Convention" title="Fairport Convention">Fairport Convention</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bert_Jansch" title="Bert Jansch">Bert Jansch</a>, derive from Jean Ritchie's version. <a href="/wiki/Shirley_Collins" title="Shirley Collins">Shirley Collins</a> and <a href="/wiki/Davey_Graham" title="Davey Graham">Davy Graham</a>’s 1964 recording, an important addition to the <a href="/wiki/British_folk_revival" title="British folk revival">second British folk revival</a>, likewise bears a close similarity to Ritchie’s.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Derivative_works">Derivative works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nottamun_Town&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Derivative works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The song's melody was used by <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> for his 1963 song "<a href="/wiki/Masters_of_War" title="Masters of War">Masters of War</a>" on the album <i><a href="/wiki/The_Freewheelin%27_Bob_Dylan" title="The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan">The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dylan's interpretation influenced <a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a>'s song "<a href="/wiki/Working_Class_Hero" title="Working Class Hero">Working Class Hero</a>". <a href="/wiki/Iain_Matthews" title="Iain Matthews">Iain Matthews</a> used the melody for his song "So Many Eyes" on the 1996 album <i>God Looked Down</i>. However, there was previously a reference in <i>Second Spring</i> (1969) on the track "Southern Comfort" written by <a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Tyson" title="Sylvia Tyson">Sylvia Tyson</a>. </p><p>The British folk artist <a href="/wiki/Steve_Tilston" title="Steve Tilston">Steve Tilston</a> has recorded a version with contemporary lyrics on his 2011 album <i>The Reckoning</i>; The English folk trio <a href="/wiki/Lady_Maisery" title="Lady Maisery">Lady Maisery</a> recorded a version of this song, "Nottamun Fair", which appears on their 2011 album <a href="/wiki/Weave_and_Spin" title="Weave and Spin">Weave and Spin</a>. <a href="/wiki/Cats_Laughing" title="Cats Laughing">Cats Laughing</a> recorded the song on <i>Another Way to Travel</i>, and <a href="/wiki/John_Langstaff" title="John Langstaff">John Langstaff</a> recorded it on the album of the same name. <a href="/wiki/GoonRock" title="GoonRock">LISTENBEE</a> also produced a <a href="/wiki/House_music" title="House music">house</a> version of the song in 2015, which samples the original recording by Jean Ritchie. English folk duo Jacob & Drinkwater included a version on their 2019 album, <i>This Old River</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nottamun_Town&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nottamun_Town&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-randolph304-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-randolph304_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-randolph304_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Randolph, V (1992) <i>Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore: Roll me in your arms, Volume 1</i>, University of Arkansas Press, pp.304</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-rammel-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-rammel_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rammel_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rammel_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hal Rammel (1990) <i>Nowhere in America: The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Other Comic Utopias</i>, University of Illinois Press, p. 84</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-loc-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-loc_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/amss.sb30373a.0/?st=text">The Old Grey Mare</a>, Library of Congress, American Song Sheets Series 3 Volume 3</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-jaf-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-jaf_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Journal of American Folklore</i>, Vol. 52 (1939) p.66</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-mcguinn-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-mcguinn_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mcguinn_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mcguinn_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mcguinn_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mcguinn_5-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mcguinn_5-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=6932">Fair Nottamun Town</a>, Roger McGuinn's Folk Den, accessed June 01, 2019</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-randolph303-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-randolph303_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-randolph303_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-randolph303_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Randolph, V (1992) <i>Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore: Roll me in your arms, Volume 1</i>, University of Arkansas Press, p.303</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-harvey-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-harvey_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harvey (2001) <i>The Formative Dylan: Transmission and Stylistic Influences, 1961-196</i>, Scarecrow Press, p.69</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-gilchrist-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-gilchrist_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gilchrist, Anne. (1940). "The Song of Marvels (or Lies)", <i>Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society</i>, IV, 2, p.113</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-broadside-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-broadside_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.americanantiquarian.org/thomasballads/items/show/235">Teague's Ramble to the Camp</a></i>, Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project, accessed June 1, 2019</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-boorstin-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-boorstin_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Boorstin, D. (1964) <i>The Americans: the colonial experience</i>, Vintage Books, p.321</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-greene180-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-greene180_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Greene (2011) <i>Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances</i>, Lehigh University Press, p.180</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-sanjek-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-sanjek_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sanjek, A. (1988) <i>American popular music and its business: the first four hundred years</i>, OUP, p.368</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-shamrock-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-shamrock_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">E.g. the version in "The Shamrock, or Songs of Old Ireland", <i>The Universal Book of Songs and Singer's Companion</i> (1864) New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, iv p.29</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-maxhunter-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-maxhunter_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">E.g. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=824">Adam Ham Town</a></i>, sung by Ollie Gilbert, Mountain View, Arkansas on August 8, 1969; Max Hunter Song Collection, Missouri State, accessed June 01, 2019</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-loc2-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-loc2_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jackson, Bill. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/item/toddbib000513">That Awkward Old Song</a></i>. Arvin FSA Camp, CA, 1941</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shirley Collins and Davy Graham, “Nottamun Town,” <i>Folk Roots, New Routes</i> (Decca, 1964).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Clinton Heylin, <i>Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973</i>, p. 116</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nottamun_Town&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lizlyle.lofgrens.org/RmOlSngs/RTOS-Nottamun.html">Old Songs</a></li> <li><a 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title="Hatfield–McCoy feud">Hatfield–McCoy feud</a> (<a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Grapevine_Creek" title="Battle of the Grapevine Creek">Battle of the Grapevine Creek</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_County_feud" title="Lincoln County feud">Lincoln County feud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hillbilly_Highway" title="Hillbilly Highway">Hillbilly Highway</a> (<a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Appalachian_people_in_Baltimore" title="History of the Appalachian people in Baltimore">Baltimore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Appalachian_people_in_Chicago" title="History of the Appalachian people in Chicago">Chicago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Appalachian_people_in_Metro_Detroit" title="History of the Appalachian people in Metro Detroit">Detroit</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kentucky_County,_Virginia" title="Kentucky County, Virginia">Kentucky County, Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overmountain_Men" title="Overmountain Men">Overmountain Men</a></li> <li><a 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