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Thread #99152   Message #1972668
Posted By: Jim McLean
19-Feb-07 - 01:29 PM
Thread Name: Absurdities in songs - any examples?
Subject: RE: Absurdities in songs - any examples?
There's a new CD of Robert Tannahill songs except that one song is by Robert Burns, at least contributed by him to Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, a humerous song about two men going to a fair looking for a pretty girl and coming away with an old hag. (It's in the DT as Donald Cowper and his man). However a verse has been added which was written by William Motherwell for Tannahill's song (Hey Donal, How Donald) which was about a love sick lass. Adding this to Donald Cowper and his Man makes no sense at all.! What the singer thinks she is singing about, I have no idea. It's liking tacking a verse of Hey Jude onto Waltzing Matilda!