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Thread #3064   Message #1283040
Posted By: GUEST,John Fleming (john@thejohnfleming.com)
28-Sep-04 - 07:51 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: The Fenian Record Player
Subject: Re: The Fenian Record Player
Does anyone know when the lyrics to "The Fenian Record Player" were written?

I am editing someone's autobiography for Random House:
http://www.janeygodley.co.uk/book.html

and the person, as a young girl, was sexually abused by her Orangeman uncle in Glasgow. She used to sing Irish rebel songs at him, to annoy him, when he attacked her, but she can't remember the specific songs. She was aged around 5-12 and this would be 1966-1973, so let's assume 1967.

"The Fenian Record Player" has quite good lyrics which I would like to use but, obviously, it has to have been written by 1967!

We were going to use "The Fields of Athenry" but I believe the modern lyrics to that were not written unti 1979.

Any info you can give is gratefully received!

Best wishes and thanks,

John Fleming
London
john@thejohnfleming.com