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Thread #3265   Message #350809
Posted By: GUEST,Chris Nixon
03-Dec-00 - 05:11 PM
Thread Name: Byker Hill: background info anyone?
Subject: RE: Byker Hill: background info anyone?
Notes on tunes - "The Drunken Piper" is probably better known as Dorrington Lads, and has an even more fiendish 'B' part - as far as I know it's a Northumberland small pipes tune, and it takes a bit of playing... Elsie Marley is in fact two related tunes - one, again, a jig for pipes, and the other a song concerning said Elsie Marley, a lady of negotiable virtue who frequented the quays of Newcastle. KYBTTS Chris