The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #39035   Message #1023188
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
22-Sep-03 - 04:16 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Recruited Collier
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Recruited Collier
Gregson says "With the exception of Sally Grey, Anderson's songs seem no longer to be sung in Cumbria, although there are elderley people like my own great-aunt who can recall hearing them at 'murry-neets' when they were young."

That's not to say that some may not have hung on in places, of course; and they had been printed, in some cases, with music.

On the subject of Lloyd's Recruited Collier tune, it occurs to me that it's very similar indeed to Ewan MacColl's Sweet Thames Flow Softly. I wonder if there might be any connection.