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Thread #17022   Message #3973319
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
24-Jan-19 - 12:49 PM
Thread Name: Where's Fennario?
Subject: RE: Where's Fennario?
Apologies Leenia. Not an attempt at unpleasantness. An attempt at levity. Fennario still sounds more Italiante/Latin than Fyvie.

I think places in folk songs are all a bit random. Think of Robert Johnson placing Chicago in the land of california. I can recall Peggy Seeger researching a military engagement that never happened in Pensacola, Florida, because it was referred to in a folk song.

On these pages you will find several of the worthies above disagreeing with that the Doffing Mistress couldn't occur in Sheffield because its a Belfast song. Though anyone whose been to sheffield will tell you the place is full of Irish folk.

Anyway - an apology seems to be called for. Please consider it tendered.