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Thread #40861   Message #588630
Posted By: Anglo
08-Nov-01 - 07:46 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Yarmouth Town (Cyril Tawney)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: tawney's 'yarmouth town
Hold on a mo'. I'm confused. The implication I read here is that Cyril Tawney wrote "Yarmouth Town" which with the words given above is the same song Peter Bellamy used to sing, in fact he recorded it on his very first solo LP. There as I recall he gave its provenance as from Peter Bullen of Norfolk, and in Wake The Vaulted Echoes his source is given as "a young man who had learned it from his grandfather." Cyril's tape mentioned above is a recording of primarily traditional songs, and I don't have it to check, neither do I have the new Nic Jones compilation so I can't look there. So where does the attribution of authorship to Tawney come from?