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Thread #2888   Message #13380
Posted By: John Nolan
28-Sep-97 - 10:13 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Eyemouth Disaster / Eyemouth Tragedy
Subject: RE: Eyemouth disaster (Lyr. req.)
Hmm. Looking forward to this one. I went to school with Eyemouth kids - they were bused to Duns, (like me from Coldstream) before Eyemouth High School was built. That was in the days of skiffle and early folk revival, and some Eyemouth teenagers, like Colin Browne, were pretty good musicians. They never mentioned that song though (maybe it written recently?) Then my sister lived in Eyemouth for years and gutted fish on the pier and sung it not, but she was a Tuneless Nolan (see Newfoundland thread). Then I used to drink in the fishermen's pub on the dock called The Ship, occasionally, and come to think of it, one night there was a Disaster. Aha! That was the time me and Wee Eck Elliot got in a fight with a rival duo of unknown singers who had travelled through from Glasgow (Matt McGinn and Billie Connelly - who knew they'd make it big?). Anyway, the Disaster was that, in the middle of the furore, a whole table of drink got couped over. Gee, to think that that spawned a song....