The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3265   Message #1058022
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
20-Nov-03 - 04:29 PM
Thread Name: Byker Hill: background info anyone?
Subject: RE: Byker Hill: background info anyone?
The DT set (Sandy Paton, from Redd Sullivan) is the same as that later recorded by the Young Tradition, and is at least as "valid" as the Carthy and Lloyd recorded sets, which are modern collations set to tunes that don't traditionally belong to the song anyway. The Come All Ye Bold Miners text (posted by Anglo earlier) is quoted -so far as I can tell- from Bell's Rhymes of the Northern Bards, and was sung to the popular tune Off She Goes. Conrad wasn't entirely clear about where the text he posted came from. Bruce mentioned the Jack Elliott set in Michael Dawney's Doon the Wagon Way; I've picked up a copy in the meantime, and will look at it further: the tune looks to be yet another one.