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Matty Groves

13 Apr 01 - 05:28 PM (#440028)
Subject: Matty Groves
From: GUEST,ien143@aol.com

Has anyone here listened to this song?

It's cool :-)

Ien


13 Apr 01 - 05:42 PM (#440033)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: GUEST,#1

Which of version?


13 Apr 01 - 05:43 PM (#440034)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Bernard

Gordon Bennett! Where have you been hiding?

;o)

Round these parts, it's been the subject of many a thread!!

Rather than me make it easy for you, and spoil the fun, why not try a 'SuperSearch' - you'll be amazed at what you find!!

And if you like whatever you find
You can tell us loud and clear
But if you don't like whatever you find
Then go and have a beer...


13 Apr 01 - 05:46 PM (#440037)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Bernard

Forgot to mention - the SuperSearch is on the Forum Home page - DigiTrad Lyrics Search - or via 'Quick Links'...


13 Apr 01 - 05:51 PM (#440040)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: DancingMom

Fairport Convention , the Liege and Lief Album. Do the Super Search for info.


13 Apr 01 - 05:55 PM (#440043)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: GUEST,Bruce O.

And for the original version of June 24, 1630, see ZN286 in the broadside ballad index on my website.


13 Apr 01 - 06:04 PM (#440054)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Abby Sale

Na, yer all wrong. Even Bruce. The real original version is in the database at Clicky


13 Apr 01 - 06:07 PM (#440056)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Bernard

I suspect a wind-up. The ien143@aol.com email address is a fake!!

I tried it, and this is what I got:

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----


----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to air-zc02.mail.aol.com.:
>>> RCPT To:
<<< 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND
550 ... User unknown

COME CLEAN, MATEY!!


13 Apr 01 - 06:16 PM (#440061)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: GUEST

No flies on you, Bernard!

Hope the wind up didn't offend others

Snatch


13 Apr 01 - 08:16 PM (#440119)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Willie-O

Matty Grovessung by Morag McNairnay in a derelict schoolbus on a mountainside in BC. Guitar parts, including my best electric Fairport imitation, by me.

Apologize for the commercial, it's automatic and of course shameless.

Duh, what's a windup?

Willie-O


13 Apr 01 - 08:24 PM (#440126)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Willie-O

By the way Abby, Fatty Groves was hilarious. I lost track of who was philandering who, which is part of the point I guess...

Nice to see ya round! (Course that's what they said to Fatty I expect).

W-O


14 Apr 01 - 05:06 AM (#440316)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Fiolar

Is "Matty Groves" another version of "Little Musgrave"? They both seem to have the same story line.


14 Apr 01 - 09:19 AM (#440366)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Susan of DT

Yes, Fiolar, they are the same song, both Child #81. When you find a Child or DT number on a song (toward the bottom), you can search on that #whatever to find other versions of the same song.


14 Apr 01 - 09:34 AM (#440371)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: GUEST,Not a song writer

Since this thread seems to have started as a troll (though it has lead to some interesting posts), and given the talent here - can someone write a song called "Batty Droves", - could describe the well meaning folk who take the bait. Taking control and redirecting the thread, however, does seem very effective (and I don't mean to suggest those who have posted are batty - just seems a good song title.

NaSW


14 Apr 01 - 09:46 AM (#440375)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Bernard

'Wind-up' - tensioning the spring in a clockwork device, usually by inserting and turning a key, so that the device becomes energised.

Applied to humans it usually indicates a mischievous (?!)intent to provoke someone, often to make them 'lose their cool'.


14 Apr 01 - 01:02 PM (#440498)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: GUEST,Bruce O.

Abby, leave Mudcat alone, and finish up editing the SSS MS! I'm not the only one getting impatient to see 'Musa Proterva' published. I sent Murray some notes on P. Buchan's sources for some of the songs in SSS, and Murray is pretty close to a microfilm copy of that source.


18 Dec 05 - 06:16 AM (#1629878)
Subject: Matty Groves words
From: GUEST


18 Dec 05 - 02:11 PM (#1630091)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Big Al Whittle

I wonder what happened to Lenny in The Groves family. He used to advertise Parker pens at the height of his fame.


18 Dec 05 - 02:18 PM (#1630101)
Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Snuffy

He's probably old enough to be "faint from lack of nourishment" now.