SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
QUAINT tale is told about the song, "My Pretty Jane." Jane was a country lass who lived in her father’s cottage in Cambridgeshire. She liked the looks of a neighbouring farmer's son, Edward Fitzball. Strolling along a street one day Edward saw the pretty Jane peeping at him from behind a_ curtain, thinking she was unseen. When he reached a stile on the boundary of his father’s land, Fitzball paused to consider Jane’s charms. Being a poet as well as a farmer’s son, he wrote some verses, and, seeing the rye in bloom, he called his verses "When the Bloom is on the Rye.’ Eventually he went to London and made his name as a singer. He asked the composer Sir Henry Bishop to get the words set to music. Bishop composed a tune, but thought so little of it that he threw it aside. Fitzball rescued it and it became a favourite,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 772, 7 May 1954, Page 25
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157SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 772, 7 May 1954, Page 25
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