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Thread #173450   Message #4206245
Posted By: r.padgett
30-Jul-24 - 03:17 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Gossip Joan
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gossip Joan
Not too many examples of this song have been found

It is an example of a group action as in Holme Valley Tradition used to do Ernest Yates, Barry Bridgwater, Will Noble and John Cocking with a leader singing the verses and the choruses sung with facial and hand expressions to make an entertaining if crude/rude performance ~ there is only one version I have seen and heard printed in one of the early EFDSS books

Ray