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Thread #18196   Message #179283
Posted By: John Moulden
16-Feb-00 - 05:45 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Easy and Slow (Sean O'Casey? D Behan?)
Subject: RE: Who wrote 'Easy And Slow'?
Dominic Behan again! In "The Singing Irish" (London, 1967) on page 38, where the song is printed, he says "Words & Music by Dominic Behan" and on page 124 he adds the note "In Sean O'Casey's play you will find the chorus of the song printed here, nothing more. [last two words underlined] I wrote all the verses."

This is not to say that there was not a complete song from which O'Casey got the chorus, nor does it rule out O'Casey's having written the chorus but no-one has ever, as far as I know, seen anything else like it.