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Thread #5434 Message #672495
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
20-Mar-02 - 07:41 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: The Galway Shawl
Subject: RE: Anybody know 'Galway Shawl'?
Henderson considered I'll Lay Ye Doon to be a descendant of Muldoon the Solid Man; Jeannie Robertson used to sing a fragmentary version, to which Enoch Kent added a couple of verses (presumably of his own making). Jeannie herself changed her set over the years, adding two lines thought up by Hamish Henderson to complete a verse, and others such as Jimmy Hutchison (who first heard it sung by Kent), Owen Hand and (perhaps) Dominic Behan have written or re-written verses.