Thanks to Jim anyway for posting the words to 'Swaledale' here; I just assumed they were already here somewhere. So now we've got both Swaledale songs in one thread, which is very handy as well as a very interesting discussion on the other thread of how the song has been passed on; it really is great when the Mudcat works like this, and also solves a 10 year-old query.

'Swaledale' (the one with the chorus beginning "In that beautiful dale, home of the Swale") isn't as widely known outside Yorkshire as it deserves to be, but it really is such a lovely song to sing with a grand swelling chorus that it brings tears to the eyes of even those who, like me, have the misfortune not to have been born in Yorkshire!

Matthew