The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #34673   Message #469252
Posted By: Murray MacLeod
24-May-01 - 12:37 AM
Thread Name: Correct the Digital Tradition
Subject: RE: Correct the Digital Tradition
I have never thought it appropriate to mention this before, but there are dozens of incorrect lyrics in the DT (and these are only the ones that I have had occasion to note). The one which springs to mind as I write is Dougie McLean's "Caledonia". In the DT one of the lines reads
"I have travelled far, with coattails flying, somewhere in the wind". COATTAILS ? HELLO?

I also would be willing to offer my services in a volunteer clean-up, but it appears that that is a non-starter. Oh well.

And Bryan Bowers, I think your performance at Cambridge Folk Festival in 1975 was one of the finest I have ever witnessed. Although you will never convince me you weren't playing taped overdubs to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic". You just can't do all that on solo autoharp.

Murray