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Thread #46861   Message #698057
Posted By: Joan from Wigan
25-Apr-02 - 02:21 AM
Thread Name: What songs for St. George's Day?
Subject: RE: What songs for St. George's Day?
In our St George's Day Singaround at Wigan Folk Club on Tuesday, I sang "Hail St George" (tune: The Red Flag, with new words written in 1997 by Monologue Joe); "Sons of the Sea" (the original stirring Felix McGlennon song, not the adulterated "Bobbing up and down like this" that seems to be popular these days); Maggie Holland's "A Place Called England"; and "St George Our Protector" (from Minstrelsy of England). And a good and patriotic time was had by all...

Joan