Mudcat Café message #2865813

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Thread #29243 Message #2865813
Posted By: Jim Carroll
17-Mar-10 - 04:22 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Allan Tyne of Harrow / Valentine O'Hara
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Allan Tyne of Harrow / Valentine O'Hara

English or Irish; Ewan MacColl resurrected it and introduced it to the revival in a Scots version; it was this that everybody sang - Frank Harte certainly acknowledged this on several occasions.
John Faulkner started singing it around the same time I did and we both got it directly from Ewan.
Jim Carroll