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Thread #102364   Message #2965567
Posted By: Will Fly
15-Aug-10 - 07:14 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: The Imagined Village
Subject: RE: Folklore: The Imagined Village
Oddly enough, Sean, I've just finished re-reading "A Song For Every Season", which I also have in hardback, with original paper cover! The thing that gets me about it, every time, is the fact that the songs here - whether they were subsequently "collected" by other people or not, were written down by Bob's father, Jim, as he remembered them. We can at least say, with the songs in the back of the book - "Jim Copper's Song Book" - that they weren't buggered about by any collector with an agenda of one sort or another. They are as they were for the Copper family. Or am I being naive... :-)