The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #97556   Message #1922653
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
30-Dec-06 - 06:42 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Wild Rover
Subject: RE: Origins: Wild Rover
you are all wrong. I am the wild rover mentioned in the fsmous song. sometimes I bite traditional folksingers, and thus it is with affection and a degree of warmth, they celebrate my mandible achievements.

My favourite ploy was to bite while they were in a stationary pose with the platercasters. That's how I got to bite Pete Seeger, Ewan MacColl and Martin Carthy one night in 1953. I am part of folksong history, and we have riotous parties where they show the teeth marks - unimportant people like yourselves are never invited and we usually sort out who is going to win BBC2 Folksinger of the year with a raffle, second prize is a bottle of sherry.