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Thread #63120   Message #1022636
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
21-Sep-03 - 04:41 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Get Out on the Road and Beg
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Get out on the road & Beg
A. L. Lloyd printed a set in Come All Ye Bold Miners (revised edn., 1978, 144-5): The Old Clog-Dancer's Song. He noted:

"Sung by Pete Elliott of Rickleton, Co. Durham (23 August 1976). He had the song from an old miner, Johnson Ellwood, of Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham, himself once a champion clog-dancer."

The set he prints differs a little from yours; it begins Noo then, marras, what fettle? for one thing. Where did you get it?