The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #63271   Message #1027763
Posted By: Steve Parkes
02-Oct-03 - 03:23 AM
Thread Name: Self-proclaiming songs that can't exist
Subject: RE: Self-proclaiming songs that can't exist
Joybell, it wasn't unknown for the broadside-hawkers to have both the "Unhappy Fate" and the "Daring Escape" versions to hand if they thought the latter might be likely. (I even wrote one myself, to celebrate the Daring Escape from the Gallows of the Notorious Outlaw Wm Caddick of Shropshire, part of the Yardley Millennium Clerations in 1972.)