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Thread #17059   Message #163164
Posted By: raredance
14-Jan-00 - 11:39 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Add: Banks of Newfoundland
Subject: RE: Lyr & Tune add: Banks of Newfoundland
Actually there are three versions in the DT. Searching for the truncated filename - [nwfndl*] - retrieves all three. #1 and #3 are close cousins of the one Alan just added. But, there are more. Helen Creighton in her "Maritime Folk Songs" has a song titled "Banks of Newfoundland" that is really a version of the song "The Dreadnought". The song contains one line among the 10 verses that goes: "Oh The Dreadnought is becalmed on the banks of Newfoundland" but that's about as close it gets to the other BON songs. There are more.

rich r