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POLLY ON THE SHORE
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GUEST,TS 27 Mar 01 - 09:53 AM
Malcolm Douglas 27 Mar 01 - 10:01 AM
GUEST,TS 27 Mar 01 - 12:27 PM
Noreen 27 Mar 01 - 12:51 PM
Malcolm Douglas 27 Mar 01 - 01:11 PM
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Subject: bold carter
From: GUEST,TS
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:53 AM

Who were the group who sang Bold Carter in the 1970s using an electric guitar?


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Subject: RE: bold carter
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 10:01 AM

"Trees"; On The Shore (1970) for one, though they used the other title, Polly On The Shore.


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Subject: RE: bold carter
From: GUEST,TS
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 12:27 PM

Thanks Malcolm but Polly on the shore is a completely different song - the Bold Carter I mean starts "Come all you wild young things and a warning take by me, Never to lead your single life astray in to no bad company."


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Subject: RE: bold carter
From: Noreen
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 12:51 PM

TS, don't know which 'Polly on the Shore' you have in mind, but the one that Malcolm and I have corresponded about before is basically the same song as Bold Carter- Click here for Polly on the Shore in the DT. (I'll look up the thread if you're interested.)


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Subject: RE: bold carter
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 01:11 PM

There are a number of variants of this song, called Polly on the Shore, Bold Carter, The Valiant Sailor or The Press Gang Sailor.

See also:

Bold Carter -Some discussion, plus a text noted by Ralph Vaughan Williams from Mr J. Whitby, the sexton of Tilney All Saints near King's Lynn, in 1905.

Polly On the Shore -Collated text mysteriously credited to Randy Newman (!), with tune.

There is an entry at the The Traditional Ballad Index:

Polly on the Shore (The Valiant Sailor)

I believe that Fairport Convention also recorded it, but I'd lost interest in them by then, so can't tell you which version they used.

There is, of course, a completely unrelated modern song of the same name by Lester Simpson, which may be seen here: Polly on the Shore

Malcolm


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