A song offered by Alan. This song was recorded in 1893 in Horsham by Lucy Broadwood from the singing of Henry Burstow. Also collected by the Hammond Brothers from Robert Barratt of Piddletown of Dorset and published in the Dorset Volume of Cecil Sharp’s FOLK SONGS OF ENGLAND.
Wool combing was a male dominated industry, although isolated spinners would spin their own wool. Combers were itinerant, travelling from village to village in search of work.
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