G'day Mark,

The only real relationship between The Dogs Meeting and The Chandler's Shop is that they used the same tune: The Lincolnshire Poacher and the both use the boom, boom, boom, device, presumably pinched from The Thing.

I will bundle up some texts and MIDIText tunes on the others and forward to you (or do you want them to the address that Callie PMed?). Copyright would be a problem if you read the message printed in the centre gutter of the Albert Publications 1972 collection of Whaling Songs of Harry Robertson. It reads (complete with the emphatic capitalisation):

WARNING It is an infringement of Copyright to copy by hand or on blackboard, to print or duplicate by any process whatever or to make photographic slides of any portion of the Words or Music of the Copyright Works in this Album without written permission of the Publisher. Legal action will be taken against offenders.

The basic connection with on Ewan MacColl's The Fitter's Song and the tune for Travelling down the Castlereagh is that Ewan's tune is (v. loosely) based on the other ... but I seem to remember a connection between some tune or other for Travelling down the Castlereagh and another of your Celtic connections tunes.

I need to refresh my mind on that by looking back on the past postings. Of course, if you got your membership nailed down (no cost, lots of advantages) you could search back on your postings (not those as "GUEST").

Regards,

Bob Bolton