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Thread #31622   Message #412725
Posted By: GUEST,Roll&Go-C
07-Mar-01 - 09:55 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Fireman Song
Subject: Lyr Add: THE FIREFIGHTER'S SONG (Ewan MacColl)
Ewan MacColl did compose another "The Firefighter's Song" © 1963 Stormking Music which is printed in the Ewan MacColl-Peggy Seeger Songbook published by Oak in 1963. The first verse runs:

THE FIREFIGHTER'S SONG
(Words by Ewan MacColl, tune traditional Irish)

It was back in nineteen twenty two when I was twenty three,
I turned my seaman's papers in, said farewell to the sea,
I changed my old blue dungarees for the fireman's livery,
O, cursed be the day, my boys, I lost my liberty.

If you're interested I'll post the rest of the verses.