o waly waly is part of my forthcoming programme, but whilst writing my programme notes i am really struggling to find details about the song? Can anyone help?????!!!!!

Sorry to ask - but is this really difficult enough for LRSM? I would put it around grade 5.

If it's the Britten arrangement, I see it is on the LRSM lists (also TG Grade 4 )

Ah! My apologies!

I would agree though that it doesn't seem anywhere near hard enough for LRSM - there is a different arrangement on the AB Grade 5 lists and quite a few of mine do it as an effective unaccompanied song at that level.

I completely agree, it is definately on the list, i think the reason it is there is to do with the breath control and ensuring good interpretative skills, i did it for my grade 8 folksong! still cant find flipping information on it though!

If you've already used it at a lower level are you allowed a rehash?

Have you looked in Child's Ballads? My nearest book of ballads (from 1865, so maybe not the latest research) says it was first published in 1724, and predates its use in the Marchioness of Douglass.