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By the way, we have a game we play every week at the VSC of singing the next ballad from the numbered list of old ballads collected by Francis James Child. This coming Saturday we have "The Three Ravens". Here's the plot: Three ravens are talking about lunch. One of says there's a dead knight lying in the road not far from here. They go and find the knight is protected by his girlfriend, dogs, deer... and they think how great it would be to have that sort of group taking care of someone.
 
This song is very old, but was popular more among the upper classes - there are very few traditional father-to-son-mother-to-daughter versions ever collected. But it spread, and became the The Twa Corbies in Scotland, and then traveled to the new world and became Three Old Crows, and then remarkably, Three Old Crows traveled back to the British Isles and was picked up there. Anyway, it's a good song, covered by Peter Paul and Mary among others. 

We may have several people singing different versions. If you know this at all, or can learn it, feel free to sing any version of this - it's wonderful to have multiple takes on the same song!