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Thread #105162   Message #4025098
Posted By: Vic Smith
27-Dec-19 - 10:58 AM
Thread Name: 2007 Ewan MacColl Bio - Class Act
Subject: RE: 2007 Ewan MacColl Bio - Class Act
I don't know who was responsible for the transcriptions of the song words in Till Doomsday in the Afternoon but they clearly were not conversant with the various Scots dialects used in the Stewarts songs or Scottish place names because there are a fair number of errors. For some reason, one of these errors really annoys me. On pages 245 - 247, the notes tunes and words of the song that the book gives the title as Geordie Weir (Roud No. 5205). The book gives the first line of the chorus as:-
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