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Thread #91696 Message #1746084
Posted By: Mark Clark
23-May-06 - 01:11 PM
Thread Name: Molly and Tenbrooks
Subject: RE: Molly and Tenbrooks
Nuts, I forgot to include the first verse. The same first verse that Barry listed above.
Run ol' Molly run Run Molly run Tenbrook gonna beat you To the bright shining sun
Bright shining sun oh Lord Bright shining sun
It seem to me that this song came from an Irish song about an actual horse race. I think Tenbrook was really something like Ten-Broeks but I don't have any reference at hand. I think this was discussed in Sing Out! magazine in the early 1960s