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Thread #21800   Message #4207973
Posted By: GUEST,Nick Dow
05-Sep-24 - 12:29 PM
Thread Name: Folk song collecting. Good or bad?
Subject: RE: Folk song collecting. Good or bad?
Yes now we're in agreement about rubbish. (The book that is not the song) The same thing in reverse has happened when I was compiling Secret Stream Volume 2. The Gypsy folk sing a song called 'Jimmy Doyle the Poacher' with a chorus (Ran tan diddle ay dan Jimmy Doyle the poacher) The original song was Canadian with a few different words and no chorus, my publisher contacted the owners and they wanted an obscene amount of money to include it in the book. Result is a song with a place in the Gypsy song tradition was not included. A folklorists lot is not a happy one.