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Thread #15643   Message #141494
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
27-Nov-99 - 09:12 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: My Orchet in Linden Lea (William Barnes)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Linden Lea in dialect
Put in at the end of every line a BR,
but in front of it you put <
and after it you put >

I hope what I have just put down makes it through the mincer in a useful form.

There's a lovely rendering of Linden Lea by Dave Goulder (who wrote "The January Man"), on a CD called Stone Steam and Starlings, whuich was put out by Harbourtown records in 1993. And Tim Laycock, down in Dorset also sings it beautifully, as well as his version of another William Barnes poem, "Crowns", which he rightly reckons shouild be the copunty anthem.