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Thread #18699   Message #187836
Posted By: Snuffy
01-Mar-00 - 08:35 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: Lancashire folk songs
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Lancashire folk songs
Barry,

I've got the same book - and I'll be happy to post the tunes for any words you care to post. It'll be the red midi-text listing in tiny writing plus the abc format. But it's 1.30 a.m. in England, so I won't start till tomorrow.

The Bury New Loom is in the DT database without a tune. Also a version of Nine Times a Night - I haven't checked the tune but it sounds similar. The Manchester Canal says in the book that it's a version of "The Calabar", and that's the tune in the DT, but Harry Boardman's tune is "Brighton Camp/Girl I Left Behind Me"

Incidentally, all the tunes are either by Harry Boardman, or arranged or adapted by him, and are marked Copyright Maypole Music 1972. So much for public domain!