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Thread #129987 Message #2921564
Posted By: Joe Offer
05-Jun-10 - 10:37 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Drawing Near to the Merry Month of May
Subject: RE: Tune: Copper Family-Drawing Near to Merry of May
The song is already in the Digital Tradition. It was recorded by the Watersons (and by Herdman, Hills, & Mangsen) as Swinton May Song.
I have lots of Copper recordings and two Copper songbooks, and can't find this song in any of them - so I don't know if they sang it with the same tune as did the Watersons and HH&M.
This tune is close to what I hear on the Watersons recording, but I don't know it the Copper Family used the same tune.