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Thread #9473   Message #604863
Posted By: GUEST,Andy Mitchell
06-Dec-01 - 09:10 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Indiana (Andy Mitchell)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Farewell, Indiana
Thanks to Malcolm and Lamarca. Re. the song "Far Wull We Gang" (Where will we go). All these years ago when I wrote it, the Scottish fishing industry was booming and, although species like herring were being seriously fished out, the herring fishermen all got bigger loans, bigger boats and went off to catch makeril in even bigger quantities. They made vast amounts of money but the local Cornish makeril fishing has long since gone into serious decline and the huge Scots boats don't go down there any more. They still search for makeril in the stretch of water between Norway and West Ireland but each year the shoals are either fished of pushed further out west. There are other factors like water temperature increasing due to global warming etc. What I was trying to say is you can't fish out one species and then go to the next without a serious crunch coming. I think we are now about to see that crunch. I sang the song in Peterhead (Scotland's main fishing port) and near got lynched. One fisherman, however, came up to me afterwards and said "A dinna like yer song but a canna deny that it's true" Whit an accolade ! Anyway what's this all got to with Chicago? Maybe the link is BLUES whiting or could it be SOLE music. Thank COD for the windy city

Le durachd

Andy PS I sure I've spealt Makeril wrong