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Thread #40140   Message #574397
Posted By: curmudgeon
17-Oct-01 - 05:31 PM
Thread Name: QUERY Re Tramps & Hawkers tune usage
Subject: RE: QUERY Re Tramps & Hawkers on DT
The version in the DT (yes Ian, I looked there first) is virtually the same as that in the Kennedy anthology. However, while it does contain three of the verses MacColl included in "The Singing Island," it does omit one very fine verse. And, only my opinion, the other three verses sing better in MacColl's version. I can post this if there is interest.
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It is also the tune for Davy Faa; and the McPeakes of Belfast recorded an instrumental version of the tune as "The Winding Streets of Erne.".
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BTW, MacColl's song to this tune is titled "Come, Me Little Son," in both the MacColl-Seeger songbook and on the New Briton Gazette album...
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Do avoid braxie ham -- Tom