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Thread #42549   Message #622806
Posted By: Barbara
07-Jan-02 - 02:38 PM
Thread Name: Ballad of the Merry Ferry -songs of the Northwest
Subject: RE: Ballad of the Merry Ferry (Pacific NW)
If you folks are interested in more recent NW songs that sound traditional, hit Mary Garvey up for some of her gems. How about it Mary? Got a home page up and running? The most recent one I heard named the NW rivers swum by the salmon, with a chorus of "Come home Little Brother..."

One Saturday night, when I got tight, he trun me in the can
And now, you see, he's made of me, an honest workin' man

And on the subject of 'trun', I assumed it was a dialect translation of 'he's thrown'
Blessings,
Barbara