The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #60639   Message #971313
Posted By: dagenham doc
23-Jun-03 - 10:00 PM
Thread Name: Who will Keep the songs alive?
Subject: RE: Who will Keep the songs alive?
To follow up...from another posting for the lyrics of "Any Old Iron" there is this remark...(I am surprised that these old music hall songs are lacking.).... They may well be and it seems that on the whole people have not been interested in them and yet there are a great deal of us who grew up listening to our parents sing these songs. Now I am more interested than ever in adding these songs to my repertoire and get a great kick out of singing an old music hall song which leads up to a chorus that everyone knows.That's what happens of course... everyone knows the chorus and it's a delight! My old dad died a couple of years ago at the grand age of 95 and I'm sure he would be well pleased to know that some of his songs are still being sung. I'm sure this will always happen with folk music.

Doc