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Thread #60074   Message #961770
Posted By: Jim Dixon
30-May-03 - 07:43 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Manchester Recruits by Bernard Wrigley
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Manchester Recruits by Bernard Wrigley
"Manchester Recruits" is included in a book of 36 songs and monologues by Bernard Wrigley called "Wrigley's Writings" advertised at Wrigley's own website here. It was also on the 1974 Topic LP "Rough and Wrigley," which is available on CD by mail order from Wrigley: Click here. A sound sample is also available on that page, from which I transcribed this:

Cold and gray on a market day and the people stood around
When a band of men from Scotland came to recruit for the Stewart bound (?)
Some were dressed in the uniform while the others they had none,
And a female following all the while was beating on the drum.
Now when they reached the marketplace, it's there they...