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Thread #51549   Message #786377
Posted By: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca
17-Sep-02 - 11:41 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Req: Song for the Mira (A MacGillivray)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Song for the Myra
I just checked the older thread. It was Genie I was replying to and not yourself. Sorry!

I have heard most of the early singers of the song, and from those people and Allister MacGillivray's OWN songbooks Songs For the Mira (both the original and the new edition) have it as "Princes and Kings". If you heard it as prophets, then it is the same situation as with Sonny's Dream where you have a completely different version which was made popular in Ireland when a band came to Atlantic Canada, heard the song ONCE, and went back to Ireland and sang what he remembered.

Another similar case is Four Strong Winds, where Bobby Bare wrote a completely different song from hearing Ian Tyson's version on the radio while in his car.


George, the world wants to know those Bobby Bare "Four Strong Winds" lyrics. Click here for Four Strong Winds, and don't taunt us like that.
-Joe Offer-