The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #149706 Message #3485107
Posted By: Jim Carroll
01-Mar-13 - 10:41 AM
Thread Name: Nailing your colours to the mast...
Subject: RE: Nailing your colours to the mast...
"My quote, but not my assumption either, Jim"
Thanks Will,
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
"Of course the half-life of even a good topical song is fairly short."
You mean like Shoals of Herring, Manchester Rambler, Dirty Old Town, Freeborn Man, Willie McBride, So Long, It's Been Good To Know You, We Shall Overcome, Pastures of Plenty.......?
Have just re-started singing after thirty-odd years and am staggered at the interest shown by people who weren't even born when some of them were made - somebody asked me last night "what's a hippy or a beatnik?" and another asked me for the words of 'The Ballad of Sharpville' - very heartning.
Jim Carroll