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Thread #56568   Message #886082
Posted By: GUEST,MCP
09-Feb-03 - 11:30 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: July Wakes (Pomfret, Ellison)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: July Wakes
The Horden Raikes tune is quite similar to Bob's (1st half of the tune), the last line of each verse being spoken. They give this tune as trad. They also credit the words differently - they have words:Bellasis, presumably the same Mrs Bellasis they credit with The Smokeless Chimneys ("Mrs Bellasis wrote this song and sold it at the railway stations for the benefit of the millworkers who were out of work. She collected £160 for this cause"). So who did write it?

(Although referred to in one of the earlier threads, their version is not given, and while differing only slightly from ones already posted, I may still post words and tune).

Mick