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Richard Mellish Origins: Godspeed the Plow/Plough (29) RE: Origins: Godspeed the Plow/Plough 30 Dec 24


The Eric Winter tune (which is in 3/4 tempo somewhat rubato) seems to have supplanted previous one(s) in the revival, but I first heard the song to the 6/8 tune which it has in O Lochlainn's Irish Street Ballads. I keep thinking I ought to get to grips with ABC notation but I have failed to do so, so I can't post the tune here.

But while I'm here I may as well quote Gordon Hall's parody words (which he sang to the Eric Winter tune).

I have hunters to ride,
A thousand acres set aside,
And the subsidies keep rolling in.
I have Champagne for lunch.
On Russian caviar I crunch,
And I pickle my false teeth in gi-i-i-in.

I have lawns, I have bowers,
Ten jacuzzis, five showers,
And a holiday villa in Palma.
I've videos and tellies,
Two Range Rovers, green wellies.
Sod you Jack, I'm all right, says the farmer.


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