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Thread #122858   Message #2698381
Posted By: GUEST,Gordon Tyrrall
12-Aug-09 - 05:45 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Wakefield Gaol
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wakefield Gaol
There's a version of Wakefield Gaol in Roy Palmer's "A Touch On The Times", and another,much better,version in Leeds public Library's archive of broadsides collected by Frank Kidson - you'd have to go there to see that though - and there's no tune.Palmer has a rather dull tune for his version - not sure where he got it from, but its a little like the tedious tune to the Gaol Song in The Penguin book of English Folk Songs.The best you can say for this tune is that its appropriate for the subject - listening to it seems like a life sentence ;-).