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Elektra Lyr/Chords Add: The Galway Races (16) RE: The Galway Races 15 Jan 98


There is another verse in the version I keep hearing and I've got all of it except the last line:

There were all manner of confectioners(?) With sugar-sticks and dainties Oranges and lozenges Lemonade and raisins Gingergread and spices to accomodate the ladies ? ? ? for thruppence ? ? ? ? ? ?

This seems to replace the one about the pipers and fiddlers, which he either doesn't know (highly doubtful) or omits (much more likely -- he tends to drop verses of longer songs when the audience get restless). I am going to have to ask him where he got this version since he tends to have fairly "traditional" sources (and is often familiar with differing versions of a given song), but he'll throw in a curveball every now and then. (He has two extra verses to the Scotsman's kilt I've not found elsewhere, for example. A sort of postscipt to the popular version, if you will.)

Otherwise, it seems the same.


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