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Thread #28058 Message #346699
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
25-Nov-00 - 04:56 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: The Ow'dHam Recruit
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Ow'dHam Recruit
If you mean the early 19th century broadside song usually called "John O'Grinfilt's Ramble" or similar, I have a tune for it which Mike Harding gave in his Folk Songs of Lancashire (1980) which I can send you if you'd like. I don't know where he got it from, mind. There are some copies of this song, and others about the eponymous hero, at The Bodleian Library Broadside Collection, for example: