The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #141738 Message #3263867
Posted By: Paul Burke
26-Nov-11 - 03:28 PM
Thread Name: 'Authentic' new 'old folk songs'
Subject: RE: 'Authentic' new 'old folk songs'
Cawsand Bay (or M-Cawsand\Bay if you're Dave Burland) surprised me in the opposite sense- I thought it was a recent composition, but it turned out to date to the 1880s at latest. But other real surprises were that many of the classic "Cockney" songs associated with the Blitz, like "Mybey it's becawse i'm a Landaner", are post-War compositions.