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Thread #71501   Message #1225208
Posted By: GUEST,padgett
14-Jul-04 - 05:53 AM
Thread Name: Yorkshire Folk Songs
Subject: RE: Yorkshire Folk Songs
Yorkshire couple written by Jim Mackey of Pontefract, a retired teacher at Ackworth Quaker school!
He is a prolific writer, a really nice chap plays a bit of guitar, first picked up by Dave Burland, from whence Kate Rusby (Steve and Ann ~ her parents) heard it.

Keith Marsden, mainly West Yorks/Bradford/Leeds industrial working class view of lifepost pre and post war Britain

Prospect Providence Perseverance mill life in West Yorkshire,
Ellesmere Port a rude song, but very funny if your male!