The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #51259   Message #784690
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
15-Sep-02 - 07:10 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Over the Hills and Far Away / O'er the...
Subject: RE: O'er the Hills
Mr. Lurker, The Rochester Recruit song is a bit older than Strawhead. It may or may not go back to the time of Marlborough,but certainly to the Boer War.
Malcom, the Twa Recruitng Sergeants tune is surely not that similar?
Over the hill,
Keith.