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Thread #138210   Message #3163165
Posted By: Musket
31-May-11 - 01:16 PM
Thread Name: Spencer the Rover- gibbeted highwayman?
Subject: RE: Spencer the Rover- gibbeted highwayman?
Many people, self included sing "In Sheffield near Rotherham."

Must be sad on my part to learn and sing a song on the basis of winding up the good people of Sheffield. When I lived in the city, reminding them of their status, (in song, people needed to be told you were near Rotherham in order to place you...) kept me sane.

I note Attercliffe must have been a no go area at the time then? As opposed to now, where it is a fine place to partake of a glass of Chardonnay of an evening.....

Spooky, I dipped into this thread just as iTunes randomly selected John Martyn's hauntingly beautiful version...