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GUEST,baz parkes	Origins: Pigeon Pie - Black Country Song??? (18)	RE: Origins: Pigeon Pie - Black Country Song???	03 Oct 11
I have both but can't lay my hand on them...but the song is certainly in both The reference to John Wesley recalls a supposed visit to (I think) Wednesbury. Although popular in the Black Country, some of the rougher elements didn't agree with the teetotal aspect it decreed....hardly surprising when they were working in the heat of foundries and the water wasn't safe to drink... "Bright Crowns Laid Up" is , I believe, in the Methodist Hymnal. Off to check the bookshelves (I think it may also be found in Jon Raven's "Victoria's Inferno") Baz

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