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Thread #128552   Message #2880747
Posted By: Jack Campin
06-Apr-10 - 11:55 AM
Thread Name: The song Jazzer sang on the Archers?
Subject: RE: The song Jazzer sang on the Archers?
Some Jacobite songs are OK, that one is banal as already explained above in some detail. I don't care if Jack Campin happens to like it.

It is banal, and I don't particularly like it (still less do I like John MacKenzie's politics, as he presents it here). But it isn't a reactionary anthem as you're representing it.

It has the great merit, compared with any of the Brian McNeill songs you're recommending, that it doesn't drone on for long enough to threaten the audience with pressure sores in the bum.

I know June Tabor has been to Scotland at least once, as I've seen her here (about 15 years ago). But if she told you that way of spelling Coulter, that either Roses of Prince Charlie or Coulter's Candy was a Glasgow song, or that The Jeely Piece Song was traditional, she didn't spend long enough up here to learn very much.