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Thread #159951 Message #3882842
Posted By: Lighter
17-Oct-17 - 03:02 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Trooper Cut Down in His Prime (Roy Palmer
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Trooper Cut Down in His Prime (Roy Palmer
A disused brain cell has fired up and reminded me that MacColl's "Trooper" appeared in 1960 in The Singing Island, edited with Peggy Seeger.
P. 112 reveals that MacColl learned his version from "the singing of Harry Sladen of Openshaw, Manchester, 1946."
P. 70 avers that "The text printed here is similar to that published on a broadside by Such of London in the 1850s."