The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #67216 Message #3930619
Posted By: Richard Mellish
13-Jun-18 - 03:53 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: John Riley's Always Dry (Harrigan...)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: John Riley's Always Dry (Harrigan...)
The version just quoted, from Grenvil Blatherwick, is very close to the version that I got from Dave Crosbie back in the 60s, but significantly different from the American Memory Collection version quoted earlier, showing the folk process at work. Notably, the last verse has been dropped.