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bold carter DigiTrad: POLLY ON THE SHORE SCILLY ROCKS Related threads: Lyr Req: Bold Carter: Napoleonic song (13) Lyr Req: Unto the East Indies We Were Bound (24) Origins: Polly on the Shore (23) Lyr Req: Polly on the Shore (answered) (4) (closed)
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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? |
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. |
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." |
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.) |
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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