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Thread #46396 Message #4072188
Posted By: Noreen
17-Sep-20 - 07:05 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: With My Dog and Gun - Mountain Streams
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: With My Dog and Gun - Mountain Streams
Interesting point Richard. Yes, John sings it the way his dad did, as do I.
When I was learning it (more than 40 years ago?!), that placing of words bothered me too, as I'd always been told it was bad form to end a line with a preposition and one should sing a whole phrase.
I experimented with moving the words round, and I might occasionally do so now, but I find that "the mountain streams where the moorcocks crow" is a complete phrase in itself and works best as the final, complete, repeated line of each verse.
I suppose I love the song as Paddy Tunney "moulded" it (as in the quote from John above).
Each to his/her own though :)