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Thread #43882   Message #716262
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
23-May-02 - 02:31 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Cruisin' Round Widgery Wharf
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Cruisin' Round Widgery Wharf
From previous discussions of Cruising Round Yarmouth, it appears that most people learnt it at some remove from records made by Ewan MacColl or Bert Lloyd; Lloyd learned it from Harry Cox of Catfield in Norfolk, and I suspect that MacColl did, too, though textual variations have crept in with time.

I don't have the Cox version, but MacColl printed a set from Sam Larner of Winterton, Norfolk, in The Singing Island (1960), which will have to do for now. Until it makes the Mudcat Midi Pages, a midi can be heard via the South Riding Folk Network site:

Cruising Round Yarmouth (Sam Larner's version).