The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #166662 Message #4009316
Posted By: Lighter
17-Sep-19 - 12:34 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: James Bird
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: James Bird
Thanks again.
"Sons of freedom" is clearly superior in this case to Miner's "Sons of pleasure."
McCarty's indicated tune, "The Tempest," is said by Norm Cohen to be, probably, that of the well-known "Cease, Boreas":
https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/181/050
(Stan Hugill wrote that he'd learned "a version of Boreas" from his father.)