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Thread #155486 Message #3658053
Posted By: GUEST,Fred McCormick
07-Sep-14 - 06:22 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Transportation Songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Transportation Songs
Noreen. "No malacca cane there. Fred!"
You're quite right, but as I said, I was in a hurry when I posted that text and hadn't checked it properly.
As it happens - senile dementure alert - I've sung Harry Cox's version for years, and would have sworn that it had the reference to malacca canes.
Anyway, they do occur in other versions of the ballad, notably Walter Pardon's, where malacca becomes very appropriately transmogrified into 'man lashing'. Also, I think Frank Hichcliffe's version contains a mention of malacca canes.