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Thread #120259   Message #2620259
Posted By: Sean Mc
28-Apr-09 - 04:31 AM
Thread Name: Authenticity Police
Subject: RE: Authenticity Police
I have already posted this story on the 'Queen of the May' thread but it seems relevant to post it again here. The song was written by my father some 27 years ago......

Dad & I were playing in Padstow one night and, inevitably, we did Queen of the May.
Afterwards, a women of middle years and a rich Cornish accent came up to us & said to Dad,
"'Ere boy, you got the words wrong".
"Oh really" dad replied, "But I wrote it".
"So youm the bugger" she replied. But her husband shouted across,
"'E didn't write that, I remember my father singing it". To which some else joined in with,
"You don't even know who your f..ing father was".
And such was a typical evening in Padstow……..