While successfully remembering the answer to a history question on a TV quiz game the other night, I realised that I had garnered the info from a folk-song. It then struck me that I have learnt a lot of history and historical facts from this source, from way back when a song about Lizzy Borden was popular. Recitations of the Stanley Holloway monologue about the signing of Magna Charta, a song about Maria Martin, and various shanties about press gangs,transportation,and the cargoes they carried round the world in the days of sail. Add to these the songs about famous or notorious people, and it all begins to take on the mantle of education, as much as entertainment. I daresay this is not an original conclusion, but I'd like to hear what the Mudcatters think on this theme.
Failte.....Jock