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Thread #55827 Message #3721580
Posted By: GUEST, hartistick
07-Jul-15 - 03:16 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Puzzle:Edmund Fitzgerald and Bobby Sands
Subject: RE: Origins: Puzzle:Edmund Fitzgerald and Bobby Sands
The tune for "The wreck of the edmund fitzgerald& back home in derry"is from the derry area of NTH Ireland,bob dylan used it at Newport folk festival 1963,to the lyrics of "North Country Blues"at least ten years before Gordon Lightfoot or Christy Moore.it may have come from Scotland originally,i am still researching this tune,I will post any definitive history.