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Thread #11236   Message #1696713
Posted By: stallion
18-Mar-06 - 02:55 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Man of Double Deed
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Man of Double Deed
The Oxford Book of Light Verse (Edited by W H Auden) has a version " A Man of Words not Deeds", it has some variations in it that I haven't heard and I think returning to a source closer to the original text freshens them up a bit. reworks of reworks of reworks makes a song a bit tired. The first reference I know to the "man of double deeds" title is the version that Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers recorded in the sixties, it may well be that " A Man of Words not Deeds" may be a lot earlier.
regards
Peter