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Thread #58140   Message #2818566
Posted By: GUEST,Ian Mather
22-Jan-10 - 11:12 AM
Thread Name: What songs are native to Derbyshire?
Subject: RE: What songs are native to Derbyshire?
Well, as a Derbyshire lad myself, I heard many songs written locally about local events / people I suppose.

A couple that spring to mind are "The Sun and The Moon" (I have heard this as being Cornish as well as Derbyshire, and I once heard Mick Peat say it was written by a bloke called Lowndes, which is a surname in our family, so a possible Derbyshire there?)

Mitch sings a song, can't remember it right now, about a pigeon fancier in Derby. Can't recall if it is his or somebody else's.

Interesting to hear of a song written in 1979 called Eyup Mi' Duck. A song of that name was written about the same time by a Somerset lad living at the time in Worksop called Phil Horsham. Different lyrics, and two miles over the border....

Shirebrook Shanty is a Derbyshire "song" but more of an in joke for anybody who has been drinking at the Drum over the years.

Hey ho.