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Thread #97739   Message #401189
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
18-Feb-01 - 10:24 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Hanged I Shall Be
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hanged I shall be
That would be

"For the sparks of fire and brimstone (all) around my head did shine."

As a rule I'd say "my" rather than "me" where it's just a dialectal pronounciation, but that's only a personal preference.

Roy Palmer (English Country Songs, 1979) gives a slightly different version, from "Shepherd" Taylor of Hickling in Norfolk (1921), and remarks, as Wolfgang quoted in the earlier thread, "Ekefield Town...does not exist; but this could be a garbled version of Hocstow, the original location."  Harry Cox (from just up the road in Catfield) also sang "Ekefield".  I'd guess that the Albions recorded a Norfolk set, but it's not either of the ones I've mentioned.

Malcolm