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Thread #151702   Message #3547576
Posted By: dbranno
10-Aug-13 - 11:08 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: (Corrected?) Factory Lad (Colin Dryden)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: (Corrected?) Factory Lad (Colin Dryden)
Small amendments section for JoeElf.
Verse 2, line 1, "Sleet and dark..."
         line 4, a northern English "...t'other (pronounced t'oother) on your lathe..."
Verse 3, line 4, "... as a lathe and 40 years."   

"Some of the people in this town, enough to bring a poor boy down.
Never reap, never sow, never take the time to grow."
- and that's all I remember of one of the good handful of songs that Colin wrote in 1972/3.

And as to my last post: more in sorrow than anger.