Published On Mar 10, 2016
Dives and Lazarus is a tune is used in many folk songs:
"The Star of the County Down" (Ireland)
"Gilderoy" (Scotland)
"The Thresher"
"Crooked Jack"
"The Unquiet Grave"
"The Fighting 69th" (United States)
"The Murder of Maria Martin" (Norfolk)
"Baledwyr Nefyn" (Gwynedd, north Wales)
It is also the basis of Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus" and was also arranged by him as a hymn tune "Kingsfold".
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