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Thread #49846 Message #3420558
Posted By: Joe Offer
16-Oct-12 - 03:46 AM
Thread Name: DT Attribution & Minor Corrections PermaThread
Subject: RE: DT Attribution & Minor Corrections PermaThread
There seem to be two entries for "The Minstrel," by Graham and Eileen Pratt. Both have the filename[ MINSTRL - but only one entry has a tune file. The songs are: http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=9947 http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=8701
Now, this may be a Mudcat glitch and not the fault of the Digital Tradition, but I thought you should know about it.
"In Old Pod-Auger Times," filename[ PODAUGER Third verse, second line, should be: And struggle with bad cigars,
Also, there's an extra space in the word "I'll" in the first line of the first verse. Photographer's Ballad, filename[ PHOTOBLD, by Grit Laskin is actually titled "The Photographers." The lyrics in the DT are a bit off - I posted corrected lyrics in this message (click). "The Sheffield Grinder," filename[ SHEFGRDR - appears twice in the database. One has a tune and the other does not, but the lyrics appear to be identical. #10177 and 8323.
Our DT version of Do You Hear What I Hear?, filename[ DOTOUHER, is a mess. I posted corrected lyrics with proper attribution here (click). Tattie Bogle wants you to remember to correct the "coattails flying" line in Dougie MacLean's Caledonia See this thread, in which Martin Graebe complains (rightly) that his song "Jack in the Green" has been bowdlerized in the Digital Tradition. We have two versions in the DT that are essentially the same, except that filename[ JACKGREE has a verse missing. Why not delete filename[ JACKGREE and leave the other version, filename[ JACKGRE2. The second version comes from Graebe's Website, so it's likely to be the definitive version. Tom Lehrer's LOBACHEVSKY filename[ LOBACHEV is missing a line. See this thread (click) for the correction.