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GUEST,John Foxen Origins: First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (71* d) RE: Origins: First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 27 Feb 12


At last some sort of proof from Lynn of MacColl's plagiarism.
It is a well known fact that Sweet Thames Flow Softly was written by the juvenile poet poet Eddie Spenser who was starving and had to sell the rights to his song to Faber publishing hack Tommy S Eliot. Eliot stole a few lines for himself and passed the rest to MacColl.


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