The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #2128   Message #8370
Posted By: Wolfgang Hell
10-Jul-97 - 04:31 AM
Thread Name: Tune Up: Fantasy Folk Circle cont'd.
Subject: RE: Tune Up: Fantasy Folk Circle cont'd.
I'd like to join you and sing one of the few songs that sound alright with my voice, "DAVY LOWSTON".

An addendum to this song for the DT from a footnote on my copy:

"The real life hero of this ballad, David Loweriston; his ship was the 'Active', and his Captain named Bader [a long way to McGraw, W.]. The sealers were left on an island in Open Bay in February, 1910. Though some of the men were ill, no one had died when they were taken off several years later, by the schooner 'Govenor Bligh'".