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Thread #119063 Message #2579101
Posted By: Mr Red
02-Mar-09 - 05:13 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: A C Coder (to the tune of 'A Wild Rover'
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A C Coder (to the tune of 'A Wild Rover'
Folk Process?
Actually - I get enough to know it refers to C++ but that don't scan (just call me a pedant)
And by way of excessive pedantry could I suggest the tune of the "Wild Rover" would be the tune that the Dubliners made famous? There is much debate about the origins of the WR and Ewen McColl & Peggy Seeger collected it from Sam Larner as recently as the 60's and the Dubliners probably got it from there. The documentary evidence seems to point to broadsides 200 years ago with various tunes, though the tune we all recognise is a little harder to pin down. And most evidence puts the origins to England. But as ever all Folk is Irish by default in the eyes of the public.