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Thread #49444   Message #747480
Posted By: GUEST,greg stephens
12-Jul-02 - 08:44 PM
Thread Name: Hugill/Dana's missing shanties
Subject: RE: Hugill/Dana's missing shanties
Know what you mean about them song books.I was vaguely running(in a non-prescriptive way) a bit of an informal pissed up session in the peel sailing Club(Isle of Man) at the boatfest last w/end, and there were a group of people with a big folder of song words at the table.And they were leafing through their bloody book when anyone kicked in with a song, and joining in with the words off the song-sheets. Completely oblivious to the fact that the singer who had started the song was singing something completely different. I'm not convinced that this new-fangled policy of teaching everyone to read at school is a good idea.