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Thread #73683   Message #2016274
Posted By: GUEST,Tonydoh
04-Apr-07 - 12:54 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: The Old Threshing Mill
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tune for 'The Old Threshing Mill'
Hi Martin

I don't know how to work this site, so I've replied to you instead of elsewhere,

Here are what I think are more correct words to the Old Threshing Mill by Brier in verse order of your printout..:
1st verse - ..walk.. not walked
I see.. not I can see
2nd v. - you'd hear the great sound...
OH the men in the valley...
..a hand AT the old threshing mill.
5th v. - a reek
..lives AS WE MURDERED the rats
7th V. - Larry ANDY.. NOT EMDY
8th V. - Just like the corncrake (bird)
OH it makes me feel sad..
For I LOVED the dear sound..
Then in the chorus they seem to sing For "ale-empty bellies.." (Larry Andy had bottles of porter..) if that makes sense.
Regards, Tony Doherty