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Thread #13683   Message #114006
Posted By: lamarca
13-Sep-99 - 08:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Benefit Concert
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BENEFIT CONCERT (Albert Shaw)
Here it is - it wasn't Harry Boardman, but a singer named Brian Clift. This was on a sampler collection from the British label Broadside Records called "A Feast of British Folk" from the late '70s; I've transcribed it best I can given the accent!

The Benefit Concert (from the singing of the late Albert Shaw)

First tune:
Well, I've just come away from a benefit concert
It'd served me much pain if I'd never have gone
It was held at the Manslaughter Arms around the corner
I'm the only one left out of a hundred and one.

This concert was held on behalf of Nobby Taylor
He'd just lost his mother, his only support
And for your kind attention I'll tell you the program
Of this little concert, the best of its sort.

Second tune:

"The more we are together, together, together,
The more we are together, the merrier we shall be!"