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Thread #173096   Message #4197311
Posted By: GUEST,BlackAcornUK
16-Feb-24 - 11:00 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Fireman's Growl
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Fireman's Growl
I should note that the tune that Rose sings it to isn't the traditional Scottish Highland one - nor the song by Don McClean!

It seems very close, but not identical, to the tune used for Tommy Armstrong's 'The Durham Lockout' - and therefore also 'The Pretoria Pit Disaster', which I posted about yesterday; a pure coincidence that I should have heard this Tony Rose track today, after listening to the Houghton Weavers one just the previous evening.