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Thread #74120   Message #3852732
Posted By: GUEST
27-Apr-17 - 11:22 AM
Thread Name: North Staffordshire songs
Subject: RE: North Staffordshire songs
Some oatcake songs on YouTube, mostly not terribly folky imho, or oatcakes are barely(!) mentioned so I'm not going into a lot of detail
Never Underestimate An Oatcake _ Terry James
The Oatcake Boat Song _ neo anderson
I Want Oatcakes (For My Christmas Dinner) _ Merrym'n(Bob Moston)
They don't make oatcakes in Ohio _ Duncan Bourne
An Oatcake's Not Negotiable _ Terry James
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM6cU8b4WUOQRZZF2Qs0hdDtccMC8YKVW

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Merrym'n(Bob Moston) has other Stoke songs on Youtube
I Was Born In Stoke-on-Trent
Anna Of The Five Towns
47 Bottle Kilns
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWSjgUVVET2bb0GzSHV9Gmx1F9gekEVLB

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Just for the record
Recently Sam Edwards has written "Mmmmmm...Oatcakes!" but it isn't on line, I don't know if it is singable
http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2006/02/24/ode_to_an_oatcake_feature.shtml

One from a famous poet locally, but this isn't very singable
Ode to the Oatcake _ Arthur Berry
"Let us pay homage to the Oatcake
Or Oatcake or woodcake as the old men called them.
The oatcake is not a cake at all really
Not like the fairy cake or the Eccles cake
Not a cake in that way
More of a Potteries Papadum
A sort of Tunstall Tortilla
A Clay Suzette."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2006/02/24/ode_to_an_oatcake_feature.shtml

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