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Thread #110981   Message #2355557
Posted By: Jim Carroll
02-Jun-08 - 05:32 PM
Thread Name: Peggy Seeger's Cockney Leadbelly??
Subject: RE: Peggy Seeger's Cockney Leadbelly??
Bert,
The bulk of the songs on the albums were from broadside collections.
The following were (I think) to be found in the tradition; not sure of the sources of those particular versions:
Street Cries, Painters Song, Maid of Tottenham, In Newry Town, The Bold Leiutenant, Lass of Islington, The Blind Beggar, Outward Bound, Ratcliff Highway, Judges and Juries, Plank Bed Ballad, The Jail Song.
These were composed in the latter half of the 20th century:
Randolph Turpin and Sugar Ray Fight, Supermarket Song, Streets of London, Colour Bar Strike, Landlord's Nine Questions, Sweet Thames Flow Softly.
Jim Carroll