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Thread #129342   Message #2906827
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
14-May-10 - 11:09 AM
Thread Name: BBC 4 Sea songs and Shanties
Subject: RE: Shanties BBC4 right now
Girl Friday also said: There is so much to trawl through.

Now was that a deliberate joke? In this context, quite a good one, if so!
Tug the Cox (friend o' mine) mentioned the non-Scottishness of the song in post no 4 on this thread.

And Yarmouth, there are two, one on the Isle of Wight, but it's obviously the East Anglian Great one here. But as has been mentioned elsewhere, the Fish Gutters song is about all the young women who "traivelled all aroon" any fishing ports, including Yarmouth. The first verse mentions a whole cluster of ports in the N East of Scotland from whence they came.

Whatever you think about "Shoals" being included in the programme, it was good to see Irene and Graham ( more friends) singing it.