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Thread #50358   Message #1191475
Posted By: Joe_F
22-May-04 - 10:46 AM
Thread Name: Songs about fire
Subject: RE: Help: Songs about fire... need help
Guest Fred: That's "The Old *Dun* Cow" (refers to its color, not its usefulness a source of fertilizer), by Harry Wincoutt 1893.

"London Mourning in Ashes", a 17th-century broadside ballad describing the Great Fire of 1666, is on Ewan MacColl's record FW 3043.