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Thread #85364   Message #1581515
Posted By: Wayne Mitchell
11-Oct-05 - 11:22 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Child cries in t' cradle (Yorkshire)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Child cries in t' cradle (Yorkshire)
That's great!

Now I'll have to find out which (if either) of the published tunes Vera used.

I wish I still had access to the recording, so I could see to what degree I could hear those words, now that I have them -- though I'm pretty sure her version wasn't word for word.

A question for anyone familiar with the dialect: When you're reading it in print and you see a "th'", do you pronounce it hard or soft. Vera's were so vestigial that I often couldn't be sure they were there, but I think they were hard. That's why I wrote them as "t'".