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Thread #9894 Message #1421162
Posted By: John Routledge
25-Feb-05 - 08:55 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Schoolday's Over (Ewan MacColl)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Schooldays Over (Ewan MacColl)

For historic background - Sark is north of the border for shirt. Shirt in Geordie is often pronounced short. Hence the folk process.

The "Geordie" verse is no 1
The "Scots" verse is 2
The "Welsh" verse is 3

The song is in the best 5% of MacColl's 300+ output and in this context my semantics are pretty unimportant :0)