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Thread #143527 Message #3313318
Posted By: Paul Burke
25-Feb-12 - 02:24 PM
Thread Name: Origins: First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Subject: RE: Origins: First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
What rubbish. Everybody in the Folk world knows the song was originally written (in 1988) by Barry Halpin from Haydock, later known as Lord Lupin. Ewan "Molotov" McColl plargiased.. pelagrised... piglarised... copied it and improved its commercial potential a bit, originally it ran "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Tits", and the tune resembled The Laughing Undertaker.