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Lyr Req: Fishermen's jerseys

16 Nov 19 - 05:09 AM (#4019485)
Subject: Lyr Req: Fishermen's jerseys
From: GUEST,BB

A friend is looking for a song about fishermen's jerseys being knitted differently in each village so that if a fisherman died at sea and was washed up on shore, he could be identified. It's not Jon Heslop's 'Old Lady of Padstow. Can anyone help?


16 Nov 19 - 05:55 AM (#4019494)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fishermen's jerseys
From: Mo the caller

Someone at Beverley folk club (when it met at Nellies) sang one about a jersey knitted by a mother given by a widow to her second husband.


16 Nov 19 - 06:20 AM (#4019504)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fishermen's jerseys
From: GUEST

Could be "Davy Cross" written by Paul Davenport and on their CD "Spring Tide Rising": the lyrics are here:
https://www.hallamtrads.co.uk/downloads.html#ewpopup/12/


and the CD can be ordered through www.hallamtrads.co.uk


16 Nov 19 - 06:22 AM (#4019505)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fishermen's jerseys
From: GUEST,John Bowden (not a typo!)

Sorry, last post was from me.