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Thread #138221 Message #3162970
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
31-May-11 - 04:27 AM
Thread Name: Cheerful tunes mismatch to serious songs
Subject: RE: Cheerful tunes mismatch to serious songs
What is the usual tune to Binnorie? The one we do was considered ancient even at the time of The Northumbrian Minstrelsy, and the others I know are similarly effecting. More often than not you hear the Lay the Bent to the Bonny Broom melody (and refrains) which you still might hear misplaced from Child #1 popularised by Pentangle as The Cruel Sister.