The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #2875   Message #1702063
Posted By: Jim McLean
24-Mar-06 - 05:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Seven Drunken Nights
Subject: RE: Seven Drunken Nights, lyrics?
Thanks Wolfgang,
It didn't think this thread was suitable for me to mention my songs as asked by Thurg although I appreciate his kindness. I wrote so many LPs for Alastair McDonald and Nigel Denver, not forgetting title for the Dubliners, Dominic Behan, Matt McGinn and many other folk artists. I contibuted to Ding Dong Dollar, an LP paid for by Pete Seeger so that it was issued on the Folkways label. I did get a slight kick out of people thinking that some of my songs were Trad. One person, when asked where she heard The Massacre of Glencoe, said she learnt it at school and that Jim McLean was 92 and lived in Canada! I wrote the second half of Burns's Tibby Dunbar and was amused that this slipped through the net.