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Thread #4341   Message #23554
Posted By: Richard
11-Mar-98 - 05:50 PM
Thread Name: Ballad of Dangerous Dan McGrew
Subject: RE: Ballad of Dangerous Dan McGrew
It should not be too hard to find the poem in any library and most book stores. There are several collections of Service's poem out there in inexpensive editions. Also try to find the late David Perry of Ottawa Ontario's tapes of Service material, much of which he put music too. He did agreat job.

The there is the wonderful bawdy version which I heard recited around a campfire on the Tatshenshini River in the Yukon/Alaska some years ago. I remember it was only recited after liberal quantities of cheap read wine flowed. The only line I remember is the last: "And there on the floor with his arsehole tore lay Dangerous Dan McGrew." Anyone know of this version?

Richard.