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Thread #99894 Message #2010918
Posted By: HipflaskAndy
29-Mar-07 - 02:04 PM
Thread Name: Songs about Whitby??!
Subject: RE: Songs about Whitby??!
Well, actually, I hope not Nutty! The lyric above (and tune that goes with it) is mine! Written a few years back - I took your post to mean Vin had a different song about it! Naturally - the words would cover the same subject matter. If he is doing mine, grand! But I reckon it's likely another song altogether. (Would love him to do any of mine actually! - hah! Nearly happened one time!)
It's reminded me of other anecdotes actually - sorry for thread creep! I went to be guest all t' way down to Leigh-on-sea - sat waiting my turn to do the first set and a floorsinger did a song based on the 'Floating Brothel' book about first women convicts sent to Australia - dammit if my opening song was to be my own song on the subject!!! Floored me (ouch) to say the least!
Then m' old oppo Tom (Bliss) - simultaneously it seems - wrote a song based on one of two Lady pirates from English history that were 'linked' (shall we say) - without knowing that elsewhere I'd come up with one about the other lass! (Tom's on Ann Bonney, mine on Mary Read).
Spooky? May be - but I'm now developing a nervous tic! Cheers - Duncan