From: Raggytash Date: 08 Feb 02 - 03:03 PM I would like to find who wrote the Ballad of Seth Davy and definitive words if possibly

I haven't got my folder of Fritz Spiegl's Liverpool Packet to hand, but here are the words from The Spinners programme of 1972. A little late, I know.

Seth Davey by Glyn Hughes

He sat on the corner of Bevington Bush
'stride an old packing case
and the dolls on the end of the plank went dancing
as he crooned with a smile on his face

CHORUS: (Hum) Come day go day wish in me heart for Sunday
(Hum) drinking Buttermilk all the week whiskey on a Sunday

His tired old hands drummed the wooden beam
And the puppets danced d'gear.
A better show than you ever will see
At the Pivvy or New Brighton Pier.

But in nineteen-o-two old Seth Davy died
And his song it was heard no more.
The three dancing dolls in a jowler bin ended
And the plank went to mend a back door.

But on some stormy nights down Scotty Road way
With the wind blowing up from the sea,
You can still hear the song of old Seth Davy
As he croons to his dancing dolls three.

Pivvy - Pavilion Theatre :formerly a well-loved music hall, - now (alas !) a Bingo Palace.