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Thread #3747   Message #19379
Posted By: Bruce O.
17-Jan-98 - 01:16 PM
Thread Name: Looking for a tape of John McGrath
Subject: RE: Looking for a tape of John McGrath
I'm a man youse don't meet every day.

In Randolph's "Ozark Folk Songs" the text is II, p. 239. Ford has the chorus tacked onto the 1st verse of another song, "Shamus O'Brien" p. 383 in my reprint edition of 'Traditional Music in America.

This is obviously another Irish song that the Irish forgot, like Druimion Dubh (Drimandown), and Pretty Peggy of Derby (Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie, O, Marching to Frenario)

Scewball was eventually found in Ireland, and is given in Hugh Shields' recent 'Old Dublin Songs'.