The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #77286   Message #1377767
Posted By: Bob Bolton
12-Jan-05 - 07:57 PM
Thread Name: Wild Rover - do folks still sing this song?
Subject: RE: Wild Rover
G'day GUEST ... and everybody else,

A song I like as an alternative is one learned from Sally Sloane, who was a great traditional singer, here in Australia. I've posted it here at: I've Been a Wild Boy.

Sally's traditional tune (as I note in the original post) was one that seems to have been popular in British folk clubs as a gentle reminder for all to go home, at the end of the night, as Here's a Health to the Company. (In fact ... you could sing the Wild Rover verses to that tune ... and have no chorus ... of course, that might get you lynched in some chorus-obsessed clubs!