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Thread #119547 Message #2596229
Posted By: Sailor Ron
24-Mar-09 - 12:39 PM
Thread Name: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
Subject: RE: 1954 and All That - defining folk music
"... The Manchester Rambler might be a folk song in 50 years time....but they ain't there yet" Nearly 30 years ago I collected:- " I'm a tramp ship, a tramp ship on no regular run, I go wherever the cargoes they come, It may be to Sydney on Sunday But they'll change it to Lagos come Monday" The man I 'collected' it from had never heard of either 'The Manchester Rambler' or Ewan McColl. He'd learnt it on a ship he'd sailed on in the late 50s-early 60s. Is this the 'folk process' at work? Does this now mean that if 'The Manchester Rambler' is not yet a folk song, this dirived varient can be? Discuss.