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Thread #65103   Message #2976563
Posted By: MGM·Lion
31-Aug-10 - 07:40 AM
Thread Name: What's your favourite Steeleye Span song?
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Steeleye Span song?
Probably Weaver & Factory Maid mixed up with When I Was A..., Wearisome Trade, & all; + 3 (I think: hard to count) Maddys all singing at once.

All Around My Hat has many nods above, & one no-no-no ~ from Smedley, I think. BUT no-one seems to have raised interesting query as to why they should have sung the words of [or, to avoid cries of "No correct version of traditional song" & stuff, usually associated with] Farewell He, to tune of [or ditto &c usually assocd with] All Around My Hat.

Just seemed to me worth asking ~ or wondering... I mean, if they were going to sing All Around My Hat, why not just sing the words of All Around My Hat, & not those usually sung as another song to some other tune?

~Michael~