The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #28624 Message #3837018
Posted By: GUEST
06-Feb-17 - 03:24 AM
Thread Name: Versions: So Be Easy and Free When You're Drinkin'
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Be Easy and Free When You're. . .
I've been trying to find words for Jock Stewart so I can sing it tonight in memory of Alan White (The Wail, Middle Bar Singers). The more I read, the more I think that the folk process has been well at work on this one. A lot ofthe words I've found sound as though people have just repeated what they THINK they hear and it's got further and further away from the original. The Pogues version with the shooting of the dog doesn't make sense at all for instance. I think I'll just do what an awful lot of other people appear to have done and sing it the way that seems most sense to me.