The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #84038 Message #1549253
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
25-Aug-05 - 07:14 AM
Thread Name: Rights to record for Traditional Songs
Subject: RE: Rights to record for Tradtional Songs
The text of Three Score And Ten was written by William Delph, a Whitby fisherman, to commemorate a freak storm in 1889, according to A L Lloyd's sleeve notes to the Watersons' recording.