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Thread #174336   Message #4228911
Posted By: Anglogeezer
19-Sep-25 - 03:46 PM
Thread Name: 'The Camels are Coming;'Tune info please
Subject: RE: 'The Camels are Coming;'Tune info please
Helen asked .....
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From: Helen - PM
Date: 19 Sep 25 - 02:46 PM
....it would help if you could give us the information on the specific song you are searching for, including the lyrics or some of them, and who sang it, how you know about the song, etc. Any other information would be useful to narrow down the search.
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It was brought to a session I was at some years ago in Beverley, East Yorks, along with the comment, "Here's a nice little tune" nothing more.
I know it only as a tune. No suggestion that any words are associated with it.
I have, in the past, done quite a bit of research into old tunes & their titles but this one has beaten me.
I was once looking for a tune from a manuscript with the title "Vulcan Scaife", which turned out to be "Vulcan's Cave" (aka. King of the Cannibal Islands), mis-hearing must have been a common occurrence in the oral tradition!

The australian tune seems to be a simple mis-hearing of "Camel" for "Campbell".

Jake