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Thread #128690   Message #2890113
Posted By: Rob Naylor
19-Apr-10 - 05:25 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Ballad of Joe Brown (Tom Patey)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ballad of Joe Brown (Tom Patey)
OK, I've got the first 3 stanzas. Can anyone supply/ recall / point me at any more?

Ballad of Joe Brown    by Tom Patey

Many tales are told of climbers bold
Who perished in the snow
But this is the song of the rise to fame
Of a working lad named Joe

He came from good old Manchester
That quaint, old-fashioned town
But his name became a legend
The legend of Joe Brown

He first laid hand upon a crag
In the year of '49
He'd nowt but pluck, beginner's luck
And his mother's washing line