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Thread #28269 Message #1128224
Posted By: Joe Offer
03-Mar-04 - 12:25 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Dogger Bank / The Grimsby Fisherman
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: From Dogger Bank to grey Grimsby
There's a bit of an entry on this song at folktrax.org WATCH HER, CATCH HER - "Sailing o'er the Dogger Bank - to Great Grimsby" - ROUD#645 (LAWS D-8 "The Biglers Crew") - SEEGER- McCOLL SI 1960 p61 Sam Larner 1958 - O SHAUGHNESSEY YB1 1979 pp41-2 & 78-9 text from Lincolnshire Life 11:4 1971 p48 tune from Sam Larner ("We're rearum tearum fishermen, we come from Grimsby town") -- tune: "The Knickerbocker Line" - Cf BIGLER'S CREW -- Sam LARNER rec by Philip Donnellan, Winterton, Norfolk 7/3/58: RPL 26075/ 139 & 515 "Dogger Bank to Great Grimsby" - "Paddy" Tim WALSH (v & ch) rec by Cyril Tawney, Devonport 5/4/60; RPL 26310/ 206 "Californ-i-o" - Aldwin COOPER (& Ch) CRITICS GROUP: ARGO ZDA-137 1970