Talk:Where are you Going My Pretty Maid

Early Versions

According to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations(5th ed.1999), an early printing of the text is contained in Archaeoligica Cornu-Britannica (1790) by William Pryce.

A fuller version of the text with music can be found at http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn4513039 ^{[1] [2]}
The musical setting by Isaac Nathan [1] of the usual melody for this song predates 1864, the year of his death.
It is possible that Nathan composed the melody himself, though it could be an arrangement of a preexisting tune.
Isaac Nathan (1790-1864) commissioned Byron to write his poems "Hebrew Melodies" to music which he
himself [Nathan] had composed or arranged.Bkesselman (talk) 18:06, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

1. http://http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn4513039
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Nathan