The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4363   Message #24095
Posted By: Pete M
18-Mar-98 - 04:24 PM
Thread Name: A Song That Moved You?
Subject: RE: A Song That Moved You?
Changing the emotions around a bit, but all with the same effect, I still can't listen to McColl's "Moving on song" without alternating frustration, anger and despair. The whole Travelling People radio ballad, is incredible, I never thought I would hear "the final solution" openly advocated on a public media so soon after the war. (I was young and naive of course) Makes you wonder how the human race has managed to survive.

"Joe Hill" by Paul Robeson, and "Dirty blackleg miner" give me new strength to battle "the system" in this wonderful free market led country (New Zealand)

A song I heard only once many years ago "Rohallion" I think, I've never seen it written down, for nostalgia and missing home.

More MacColl numbers "Freeborn man", "Manchester Rambler" and Patey's "Bound for the Mountains and the Sea" for memories of days and weeks in the mountains climbing and singing with good friends.