The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #66701   Message #2195780
Posted By: GUEST,Jim Carroll
17-Nov-07 - 04:21 AM
Thread Name: Which Town is MacColl's Dirty Old Town?
Subject: RE: Which Town is MacColl's Dirty Old Town?
Peggy give 'smokey wind' in the Ewan MacColl songbook, but there was never any doubt that he wrote it about Salford (The Venice of the North), he said so himself often enough.
He was quite proud that so many people from different areas of the globe identified with it enough to claim it as their own.
Jim Carroll