The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113064   Message #2601425
Posted By: Jack Campin
31-Mar-09 - 01:39 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Taking Gair in the Night
Subject: RE: Origins: Taking Gair in the Night
Jerry Fudge is my name, b'ys, 'tis I made this song.
I'll sing it to you and it won't take me long.
I'll sing it to you, it's the best I can do.
There's nobody knows what our ships they go through.


Intriguing procedure - in one of the commonest genres of Turkish folksong it's usual for the author to state their name in the first line of the last verse, as Jerry Fudge did. (Look up the mediaeval mystical poet Yunus Emre for a lot of examples that have been translated). But I can't think of any other song in English that does that. Or in any other Western European language, for that matter.