Talk:Three Fishers

A fact from Three Fishers appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 April 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that when Antoinette Sterling sang the English folk song "Three Fishers" in the late 1800s, she made the first verse "quite bright" so as not to give away the unhappy ending?

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Do we have the right date?

You can find on Google books The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song which has this poem in it (attributed to Charles Kingsley), and published in 1832. Maybe 1851 is the date of the music, but it's certainly not the date of the words. Peterwshor (talk) 20:35, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ignore my previous message. The copyright date is probably 1882. It looks very much like 1832 (and confused Google Books as well as me), but careful examination of the date seems to show it's an 8, some of which has not printed properly. Peterwshor (talk) 20:52, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]