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Thread #29700   Message #384438
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
28-Jan-01 - 07:49 PM
Thread Name: Help: Unusual Devon songs
Subject: RE: Help: Unusual Devon songs
Please do post Strawberry Fair, Lanfranc, easpecially if you can do a midi as well.  To be fair to Anthony Newley, he just recorded a parody of the song; the bowdlerisation was done by Baring Gould, though, to give him his due, he preserved the original text; he just didn't feel that it was publishable at the time.  It's actually quite inoffensive, having only a very mild sexual metaphor, but would be a surprise to the generations of children who have had to learn the rather twee re-write!

Malcolm