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Thread #42222   Message #656104
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
23-Feb-02 - 12:04 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT
505)  BRISK YOUNG LAD  The DT file appears to be a transcription from memory from a record (unidentified) , and contains so many mistakes that parts of it are just gibberish.  As Bruce Olson pointed out some time ago, it also places the refrain in the place of the first verse without saying so; if it were my call I would junk the whole file.  What I can do is post an accurate text in a new thread:  Lyr & Tune Add/Corr: Brisk Young Lad.

Bruce apparently gave Dick an .abc of the tune (from the Scots Musical Museum) a couple of years ago, but I've made a midi just in case, from notation given in Songs of Scotland vol.2 (ed. Myles B. Foster, n.d., but presumably late 19th century; vol.1, edited by others, was 1877).  So far as I know, words and melody are as given in SMM.

2855)  PUSH BOYS PUSH  This was composed by members of the Dudley Tunnel Trust (in the 1970s, presumably), though the DT file does not say so.  I found staff notation at Rod Beavon's Canal Songs and Poems;  it appears to be a modified form of Ten Green Bottles.  Midi made from that notation, slightly modified for neatness and to accommodate the lyric.