The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #151783   Message #3548844
Posted By: Jim Carroll
14-Aug-13 - 04:14 AM
Thread Name: Singing in Different Accents/Dialects
Subject: RE: Singing in Different Accents/Dialects
"Shoals of Herring"
Turns up here often in Ireland as 'Shores of Erin' - even in academic collections - See Horace Beck's 'Folklore and the Sea'.
"reinvented man"
Peggy told a Woman's Hour interviewer who described him as such during an obituary feature that "He wasn't 're-invented' he just gathered up all the different bits of his life and experiences, joined them together and poured them into folk-song"
I drink to that every time I sing one of his songs or make use of something he wrote or told me/us.
Jim Carroll