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Thread #101323 Message #2042652
Posted By: GUEST
03-May-07 - 05:14 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Victory/On Board of the Victory
Subject: RE: Origins: The Victory
If you look in 'The Common Muse' published by Penguin in 1965 (my copy)- on page 131 there's the song 'Victory' - I am a youthful lady, my troubles they are great .....' That song is followed by 'A New Song Composed on the Death of Lord Nelson' which has the refrain - Mourn, England, mourn, mourn and complain, For the loss of Lord Nelson who died on the main.
I think that Steeleye tacked the one onto the other and - with their own tune(?) made a pretty good song.