The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #125089   Message #2767632
Posted By: Bernard
17-Nov-09 - 07:04 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Should we sing the Wild Rover sober?
Subject: RE: Origins: Should we sing the Wild Rover sober?
...or Glasgow, for that matter!

The song is similar in some ways to 'Nancy Whisky' (The Calton Weaver)...

I think the opening post wasn't directed at performers as such, but at groups of people in, say, a singaround, where imbibing is occasionally somewhat excessive!