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Richard Mellish Origins: Burlesque Lining Out Songs (15) RE: Origins: Burlesque Lining Out Songs 02 Jan 25

> Also related closely, but not songs, are burlesque Bible stories delivered in the same dead-pan style using Biblical phraseology such as 'And it came to pass..... Are any of these in print anywhere?

In another thread Jim Bainbridge of this parish said
> I'm pretty certain that Louis got the Exodus story from Jim Irvine, MC of the Marsden Inn folk club in South Shields in the mid sixties.

> I had got it from my pal John Greenwell (who much preferred Ray Charles to folk music) in the Grey Hen pub in Harton about 1963 and I gave it to Jim in written form<

(my emphasis).

Mayhap Jim B can still put his hand to it.

I bought a copy of the Geordie Bible booklet but was disappointed to find that its stories are in a very different style.

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