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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 06 Apr 23 - 01:39 PM From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 Jun 22 - 12:19 PM 9 April, 1806 Birth date of English engineer and inventor Isambard Kingdom Brunel. HUMOURS OF WHISKEY Traditional c. 1825 Verses: Attributed to Joseph Lunn (1784-1863) Original Title: Paddy's Panacea Earliest Date of Circulation from print or manuscript: 1901 from the publication by Manus O'Connor - Old Time Songs And Ballad Of Ireland What'll make the lame walk? What'll make the dumb talk? The elixir of life and philospher's stone! And what helped Mr. Brunel to build the Thames Tunnel? Oh! Wasn't it poteen from Malin Inishowen? Humours of Whiskey sung by Colm R. McGuinness Tge Thames Tunnell was built between 1825 and 1843 by Marc Brunel and his son Isambard using the tunnelling shield newly invented by the elder Brunel and Thomas Cochrane. It is now part of the London Overground linking Wapping and Rotherhithe. Various other recordings of “Humours of Whiskey “on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Humours+Of+Whiskey+song Link to post above SONGS ABOUT ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 08 Apr 23 - 12:58 PM SONGS ABOUT THE KINDER SCOUT TRESPASS 24 April 1932 The Kinder Scout Trespass in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England, to highlight that walkers were denied access to areas of open country. Mass trespass of Kinder Scout from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_trespass_of_Kinder_Scout THE MANCHESTER RAMBLER sung by Ewan MacColl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENYMwuCG2Y Many other recordings of “The Manchester Rambler “ on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Manchester+Rambler The Manchester Rambler (song) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manchester_Rambler How Trespassing 'Crystallised' Ewan MacColl's Songwriting by Chris Long from BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-17783987 Link to post below of GUEST,henryp which gives extra verses to THE MANCHESTER RAMBLER written by John Tams YOU CAN You Can (Mass Trespass, 1932) · Chumbawamba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqg1PgEPLZU The Young'uns and Boff Whalley on Kinder Scout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0LNS2mv0fc&t=22s You Tube doesn’t give titles for all the songs sung in this Young’uns video. The Manchester Rambler is one song but can anyone give titles to the other songs so we can then search on the internet for them? And though notspecifically about the Kinder Scout Trespass another related song is RIGHT TO ROAM - Johnny Campbell feat: Commoners Choir & The Skelmanthorpe Brass Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83T5-A7BK0Y |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,Diolch Date: 09 Apr 23 - 12:20 PM The other two (?) songs in The Young'uns and Boff Whalley on Kinder Scout video Geoff posted are THE GREAT TOMORROW , which isn't a Kinder Trespass specific song:https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?lang=en&id=59515 And FROM BELOW by the Commoners Choir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLkIlWD1PKs https://www.commonerschoir.com/writing.php Above link also has lyrics for For the Common Good (Magna Carta song). From Below Step by step… With a compass and a cap For a sing-song and a scrap Are we bound by the lines upon the map? Hell no! ‘Cos real change comes from below Chorus: From below, from below Real change comes from below It’s a place we call our own From stone to boundary stone Will they take away the right to roam? Hell no! ‘Cos real change comes from below Chorus For every footprint on the land For all the banners and the banned Should we keep to the landlord’s plans? Hell no! ‘Cos real change comes from below Chorus From below, from below Real change comes from below Down in the soil where the ideas grow Real change comes from below (Hope they don't mind!) |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,Diolch Date: 09 Apr 23 - 12:35 PM Just realised the Young'uns'own song TRESPASSERS wasn't mentioned in the original post. It's from their 2023 album Tiny Notes which is excellent and available via bandcamp: https://theyounguns.bandcamp.com/album/tiny-notes |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 09 Apr 23 - 05:00 PM John Tams added new verses to The Manchester Rambler to bring it up to date, and set it to The Farmer's Toast. Nothing changes, it all stays the same. They're selling the moorland for profit and gain. They've sold all the rivers and bought all the rain, And you can't go up there, you're disturbing the game. Cod's roe, caviar, milk stout and champagne, Gold cards and dole cards, but never the twain. That's the game, that's their game. Nothing changes, it all stays the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dchwCSqS284 Manchester Rambler by John Tams and Barry Coope Tam and Barry Link to THE MANCHESTER RAMBLER posted above |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 10 Apr 23 - 08:53 AM SONGS ABOUT MARY McKINNON 16 April 1823. execution of Mary McKinnon of Edinburgh for murder Mary McKinnon from The National Archive of Scotland https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C12725134 MARY McKINNON’S IAMENT http://www.campin.me.uk/Embro/Webrelease/Embro/13law/text/Lament.htm McKINNON’S GHOST http://www.campin.me.uk/Embro/Webrelease/Embro/13law/text/McKinnon.htm BBC Sounds Radio 4 Programme Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley: Mary McKinnon https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0f7q008 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 11 Apr 23 - 06:18 AM 21 April 1916 . Three days before the Easter Rising began in Dublin, a German submarine put Roger Casement ashore at Banna Strand in Tralee Bay, County Kerry. THE BALLAD OF ROGER CASEMENT aka THE LONELY BANNA STRAND On the twenty first of April, good Friday at the dawn. A German boat was seen to float outside of Carrahane. 'With twenty thousand rifles, all ready for to land. And waiting for a signal from the shores of Banna Strand. Lonely Banna Strand (The Ballad of Roger Casement) · Derek Warfield & the Young Wolfe Toneshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw5U-OIPtP8 Many other recordings of Banna Strand on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=banna+strand+song Roger Casement from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Casement Banna Strand (song) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banna_Strand_(song)
(Another) BALLAD OF ROGER CASEMENT aka ROGER CASEMENT https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/execution-ballads/items/show/958 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 Apr 23 - 11:42 PM On this day in 1912: The Titanic sank after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic on her maiden voyage. Anthology of American Folk Music Volume One: Ballads (1952) Harry E. Smith 1927 When the Great Ship Went Down Written By Traditional & William & Versey Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhSS6x6bx4A&t=10s When that great ship went down Performed by Andy Irvine at the opening of the Titanic Museum in Belfast. Link to post above SONGS ABOUT THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 15 Apr 23 - 06:08 AM On this day in 1989: Britain’s worst football disaster happened at Hillsborough, Sheffield, when 96 fans were crushed to death during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. The very moving WHEN SATURDAY CAME by Robb Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipbUFhxuZ8 When Saturday Came Recorded at Transmission Studios on Thursday 25th August 2011 by Ali Gavan. Video by Robb and Arvin. Hillsborough Disaster Tribute Song - Always On Our Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDgl6q5mpBo This is a song written by Matt Caffrey and Ronnie Elliott. (Liverpool, England). It is dedicated to those who lost their lives at the Hillsborough Tragedy. See also Any March songs? 28 March On this day in 1991: A jury returned a verdict of accidental death at the end of an inquest into the deaths of 96 Liverpool football fans who died in the Hillsborough stadium disaster in Sheffield in 1989. Link To MUDCAT Post from GUEST,henryp : Any March Songs? :WHEN SATURDAY CAME /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169401#whensaturdaycame:~:text=Subject%3A%20RE%3A%20Any%20March%20Songs%3F%0AFrom%3A%20GU |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 15 Apr 23 - 07:05 PM 16 April 1797. The Spithead Mutiny began at Spithead near near Portsmouth,England. THE SEVENTEEN BRIGHT STARS Come all you bold Britons, to the sea do belong, Of the seventeen bright stars I will sing you a song. On the fifteenth of April at Spithead we lay; Lord Britport he hove out a signal to weigh, But one and all we refused to obey. Mainly Norfolk: The Seventeen Bright Stars https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/theseventeenbrightstars.html Short recorded extract by AL Lloyd, Alistair Anderson and Bobby Campbell from Apple Music https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-seventeen-bright-stars-feat-alistair-anderson/1617190135?i=1617190142 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 16 Apr 23 - 06:08 PM 2 April 1801 The Battle of Copenhagen of 1801 , also known as the First Battle of Copenhagen to distinguish it from the Second Battle of Copenhagen in 1807, was a naval battle in which a British fleet fought and defeated a smaller force of the Dano-Norwegian Navy anchored near Copenhagen. Draw near, ye gallant seamen, while I the truth unfold Of as gallant a naval victory as ever yet was told. The second day of April last, upon the Baltic main, Parker, Nelson, and their brave tars fresh laurels there did gain. NELSON’S VICTORY AT COPENHAGEN - Martyn Wyndham-Read · Alistair Anderson · Bobby Campbell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3zL2xwn4dk Nelson's Victory at Copenhagen, full song lyrics from Mainsail Café https://mainsailcafe.com/songs/nelsons-victory-at-copenhagen#:~:text=Nelson's%20Victory%20at%20Copenhagen%20(song)%20%2D%20Mains Battle of Copenhagen (1801) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Copenhagen_(1801)#:~:text=The%20Battle%20of%20Copenha CLAP OF THUNDER - Lamwoc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df_bSktwXHE |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 17 Apr 23 - 01:47 AM On this day 17 April in 1860: The first boxing world title fight took place near Farnborough, Hampshire, when Tom Sayers took on American John Heenan. After 37 rounds – two hours and 27 minutes – the match was declared a draw. HEENAN AND SAYERS from Mainly Norfolk You ranting lads and sporting blades, come listen to my song. I'm sure that it will please you well and it won't detain you long. 't was the seventeenth of April and thousands went with joy To see the English champion and the bold Benicia Boy. This story of the glorious boxing fight between John Carmel Heenan and Tom Sayers was recorded in 1962 by A.L. Lloyd accompanied by Steve Benbow on guitar for the Topic EP Gamblers and Sporting Blades. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISGvLPC35mA Heenan and Sayers Heenan and Sayers - Jon Doran and The Northern Assembly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY379id2feI Heenan and Sayers from Mainly Norfolk https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/heenanandsayers.html#:~:text=The%20fight%20between%20the%20heavyweight,be%20dispersed%20b Various Ballads about Tom Sayer's from Bodleian Library http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search/subject/Sayers%2C%20Tom%2C%201826-1865/?query=&f_Subjects=Sayers,%20Tom,%201826-1865&f_S Happy Land of Caanan, the Sayers and Heenan Version http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/static/images/sheets/10000/07903.gif John C. Heenan from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Heenan Tom Sayers from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sayers |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 17 Apr 23 - 12:17 PM SONGS ABOUT THE SHOOTING OF LORD LEITRIM 2nd April 1878. Lord Leitrim assassinated in the north of County Donegal in Ireland . Ye men from Tipperary, have ye heard from Donegal, How Rory and his gallant men caused Lord Leitrim's sad downfall? It was on the second of April in the year of seventy-eight. I hope the youth of Ireland will keep memory of that date. Facebook page of Jim Carroll who gives information which prompted this posthttps://www.facebook.com/jim.carroll.73594/posts/pfbid0cfnxhXZCrByhL3kaXcd7jL4wkRABBm6HMo64X1BAzQoGr9W7hP6CBWcAgZNCJjDTl?from_cl Another Ballad on the Shooting of Lord Leitrim fom duchais.ie https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4658448/4656705/4660852
Thanks to Jim Carroll for the following link about Lord Leitrim which gives access to more recordings and information. https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZGpIqVZsXBkbB73gzQ6IfCNxXihMLIw7Nok#folder=15960411103&tpl=publicfoldergrid
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 19 Apr 23 - 05:45 PM 19 April On this day in 1775: In Lexington, Massachusetts, the opening shot was fired – by a British general – in the United States War of Independence. This was the shot “heard around the world”. CONCORD HYMN (original title "Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836") is a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson written for the 1837 dedication of an obelisk monument in Concord, Massachusetts, commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord, a series of battles and skirmishes on April 19, 1775 which sparked the American Revolutionary War. By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. At Concord's Independence Day celebration on July 4, 1837, it was first read, then sung as a hymn by a local choir using the then-familiar tune "Old Hundredth". Wikipedia Concord Hymn performed by the Choir of First Parish Church Concord,Ma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ApkEnMCwc ; |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 19 Apr 23 - 07:47 PM SONGS ABOUT THE ZOO 27 April 1828 The world's first scientific zoo was opened in London. WE’RE GOING TO THE ZOO - Julie Felix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTe9rhLC2XE AT THE ZOO - Simon & Garfunkel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xKLBne1CoI ZOO - Red Velvet https://soundcloud.com/taedess/red-velvet-red-flavor-x-zoo Zoo (song) from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_(song) WALKING IN THE ZOO "Walking in the Zoo"from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_in_the_Zoo Lyrics for "Walking in the Zoo" from Monologues.co.uk http://monologues.co.uk/musichall/Songs-W/Walking-In-Zoo.htm THE ZOOOLOGICAL GARDENS - The Dubliners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxecS31al7Q Brendan Behan: The Zoological Gardens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVbPuGvdw0k London Zoo from Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Zoo |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 20 Apr 23 - 08:09 AM ONCE TO EVERY MAN AND NATION
April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848 The Mexican–American War. |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,Diolch Date: 23 Apr 23 - 10:28 AM As I posted this in another thread and it's probably the most well-known local song about the Bay of Pigs Invasion, which tried to take place (but failed) at Playa Girón on 17–20 April 1961, let's have it here too. PLAYA GIRÓN Silvio Rodríguez - Playa Girón https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfe_gzBfrfU |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 23 Apr 23 - 12:03 PM Another song about the Bay of Pigs Invasion is BROTHERS - Randy Newman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZWLpl9oQqs Information about “ Brothers” from Song Facts https://www.songfacts.com/facts/randy-newman/brothers |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 24 Apr 23 - 07:08 PM WILLIAM GLENN On the first of April, then we set sail, Blessed with a fine and a prosperous gale. And we were bound for New Barbary With all of our whole ship's company. William Glenn - Nic Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsRCk9P-zFQ Lyrics, recording and information from Mainly Norfolk about Captain Glen / William Glenn / Sir William Gower / The New York Trader https://mainlynorfolk.info/tony.rose/songs/captainglen.html |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 24 Apr 23 - 11:41 PM 25 April On this date in 1915, Australian, New Zealand, British and French forces landed on the Gallipoli peninsula. And the band played Waltzing Matilda, as the ship pulled away from the quay And amidst all the cheers, the flag-waving and tears, we sailed off for Gallipoli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFzCmAyOp8 Eric Bogle Link to post above about AND THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 25 Apr 23 - 01:21 PM Further to Felipa Date: 21 Feb 22 - 05:55 PM https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=171051 THE DANCE OF THE CHERRY TREES recorded, and presumably written by, John Spillane. Loveliest of Trees A. E. Housman - 1859-1936 Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. From Loveliest of Trees by Polly Bolton Band 1996 SHEPHERD MUSIC SHEP CD 01 A setting of poems taken from "A Shropshire Lad" by A.E. Housman. Polly Bolton, John Shepherd and Steve Dunachie; verses read by Sir Nigel Hawthorne. Link to post above by Felipa DANCE OF THE CHERRY TREES (THE) |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 25 Apr 23 - 01:54 PM Subject: Lyr Add: Sultana (steamboat disaster 1865) From: GUEST,Rick Pollay Date: 24 Apr 23 - 03:01 PM The Sultana, Art Thieme. Tune: "Blue Mountain Lakes” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADW7JhfmVz0 It was April 24th of 1865. On the Father of Waters, side-wheelers did glide. From New Orleans to St. Louis town, Right on her schedule, she glided on down. Burning down, down, down. Burning down. She landed at Memphis on April 26th, Gave care to the wounded and care to the sick. Some stronger soldiers unloaded her hold, Carried out canned goods and bodies so cold. Burning down, down, down. Burning down. The steamboat Sultana, built for 376 passengers, was severely overcrowded at Vicksburg with over 1,953 paroled Union solder/prisoners, 22 guards from the 58th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, over 70 fare-paying cabin passengers, and 85 crew members, for a total of 2,130 people. Seven miles above Memphis, the patched boilers exploded and fire ensued. The official death count by the United States Customs Service was 1,547. Link to post above THE SULTANA |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 25 Apr 23 - 02:10 PM HARRY BELAFONTE SONGS Sky News, 25 April 2023; Harry Belafonte, the singer and actor who became a civil rights activist, has died at 96. Reluctantly nicknamed "The King of Calypso", he was largely responsible for bringing Caribbean music to an international audience in the 1950s, and the first singer - in any genre - to sell a million records in a year. Just last year, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, becoming the oldest person ever to receive the honour. Alongside his sparkling Hollywood career, he was a committed activist, working closely with Martin Luther King Jr during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5dpBWlRANE Day-O Harry Belafonte, all songs on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=harry+belafonte+all+songs |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 28 Apr 23 - 06:52 AM 28 April On this day in 1789 the crew of HM Armed Vessel Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, mutinied in the Friendly Islands in the South Seas, eventually settling on Pitcairn Island. In 1985, David Essex co-wrote and starred as Fletcher Christian in the West End musical Mutiny! based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The score produced two more hit singles, including TAHITI , his tenth Top 10 success. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpuB5GInnAk Tahiti |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 28 Apr 23 - 07:03 PM THE BOUNTY The Bounty (Trad / P M Adamson) - P. M. Adamson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF43QMiBaY Mutiny on the Bounty from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 30 Apr 23 - 06:26 PM LITTLE MARY PHAGAN 26 April 1913 13-year-old Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the factory of the National Pencil Company where she worked in Atlanta .This resulted in the lynching of Leo Frank, the factory superintendent after his trial and conviction for the murder . Various recordings of “Little Mary Phagan” on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=little+mary+phagan+song Mary Phagan, American Murder Victim from Encyclopedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Phagan Little Mary Phagan - Rosa Lee Carson (Moonshine Kate) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MydWpM7C4OY Another song about Mary Phagan THE GRAVE OF LITTLE MARY PHAGAN - Fiddlin John Carson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne7rDtQrwoM |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 May 23 - 04:19 AM THE LOSS OF THE ALBION April 22, 1822. It was the first of April from New York we set sail, Kind Neptune did protect us with a sweet and pleasant gale Until about the twentieth a storm then did arise, The raging billows loud did roar and dismal were the skies MUDCAT Digital Tradition, Lyrics @displaysong.cfm?SongID=6636,6636 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 06 May 23 - 11:04 AM Information about THE LOSS OF THE PACKET SHIP ALBION from Shannon Selin https://shannonselin.com/2017/04/wreck-packet-ship-albion/ |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: Steve Shaw Date: 06 May 23 - 05:26 PM Been trying to post this for several days, so here's hoping that (a) it'll take, and (b) it hasn't been done before! Ahem: The one Dust Bowl Ballad that mentions the date of the great dust storm of 1935: THE GREAT DUST STORM (Dust Storm Disaster) On the 14th day of April of 1935, There struck the worst of dust storms that ever filled the sky. You could see that dust storm comin', the cloud looked deathlike black, And through our mighty nation, it left a dreadful track. From Oklahoma City to the Arizona line, Dakota and Nebraska to the lazy Rio Grande, It fell across our city like a curtain of black rolled down, We thought it was our judgement, we thought it was our doom. The radio reported, we listened with alarm, The wild and windy actions of this great mysterious storm; From Albuquerque and Clovis, and all New Mexico, They said it was the blackest that ever they had saw. From old Dodge City, Kansas, the dust had rung their knell, And a few more comrades sleeping on top of old Boot Hill. From Denver, Colorado, they said it blew so strong, They thought that they could hold out, but they didn't know how long. Our relatives were huddled into their oil boom shacks, And the children they was cryin' as it whistled through the cracks. And the family it was crowded into their little room, They thought the world had ended, and they thought it was their doom. The storm took place at sundown, it lasted through the night, When we looked out next morning, we saw a terrible sight. We saw outside our window where wheat fields they had grown Was now a rippling ocean of dust the wind had blown. It covered up our fences, it covered up our barns, It covered up our tractors in this wild and dusty storm. We loaded our jalopies and piled our families in, We rattled down that highway to never come back again. Woody Guthrie Great Dust Storm Disaster- Woody Guthrie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvI7BmuUBXU Dust Bowl Ballads from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl_Ballads |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: Joe Offer Date: 28 May 23 - 06:24 PM How 'bout SO LONG IT'S BEEN GOOD TO KNOW YUH (Woody Guthrie)? I've sung this song, and I'll sing it again Of the place where I lived, on the wild windy plain In a month called April, a county called Gray Here is what all of the people there say: (Well, it's...) So Long It's Been Good to Know You -Woody Guthrie on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqiblXFlZuk |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 Jun 23 - 09:23 AM 15 April 1988 Death of British actor, Kenneth Williams who sang many folk song parodies as Rambling Sid Rumpo , originally in the 1960s BBC Radio comedy series Round the Horne. SONGS SUNG BY RAMBLING SID RUMPO https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l9wbwhy5ksWIVaDza4sFDKYB--uGWP5K8 Rambling Syd Rumpo from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambling_Syd_Rumpo#cite_note-Ganderbag-1 Kenneth Williams from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Williams |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 03 Jun 23 - 02:28 PM THE GOOD OLD CAUSE April 1660 General John Lambert tried to raise an army against the restoration of The Crown in favour of the Commonwealth by issuing a proclamation calling on all supporters of the "Good Old Cause" to rally on the battlefield of Edgehill, but he was arrested before arriving at the battlefield. Ballad: The Downfall Of The Good Old Cause https://web.archive.org/web/20090125135724/http://www.poemsonline.org/poem/cavalier-songs/downfall-of-the-good-old-cause/ Hey Boys, Up Go We from Folktune Finder https://www.folktunefinder.com/tunes/15867 The Good Old Cause – The Dolmen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT4i6hBET8U Good Old Cause rom Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Old_Cause |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 Jun 23 - 03:58 AM April 7, 1915 Birth of singer Billie Holiday SONGS SUNG BY BILLIE HOLIDAY Billie Holiday from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday Many recordings by Billie Holiday on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Billie+Holiday++top+tracks |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 06 Jun 23 - 06:44 PM Apr 30, 1900. Death of "Casey" Jones, railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi. CASEY JONES Casey Jones from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Jones Casey Jones [Laws G1] from The Ballad Index http://balladindex.org/Ballads/LG01.html Many recordings of Casey Jones on You Tube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Casey+Jones+song |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 07 Jun 23 - 04:56 PM SONGS ABOUT EMELIANO ZAPATA April 10 1919. Death of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata ” Zapata's Blood”- Rage Against the Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSekAZFTuHA Emiliano Zapata from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Zapata ” Zapata Se Queda” - Lila Downs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beuRgIqxTnY Corrido de la Muerte de Emiliano Zapata - La Milpa de Mexico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gyA0vSa91U Link to post below from ,henryp :VIVA ZAPATA |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 14 Jun 23 - 09:11 AM Apr 13, 1743 Birth of Thomas Jefferson , the third president of the United States. SONGS ABOUT THOMAS JEFFERSON Thomas Jefferson from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson Jefferson and Liberty - Pete Seeger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLkOqeQe0XM The Thomas Jefferson Song - Mr. Beat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTTWwsyA_cU |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 17 Jun 23 - 12:27 PM THE HERTHA AYRTON SONG 28 April 1854 Birth,in Portsea, Hampshire, England, of Hertha Marks Ayrton,suffragette, mathematician, scientist and inventor of the practical form of arc lighting . Hertha Ayrton from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertha_Ayrton The Hertha Ayrton Song Lyrics from electric voice theatre https://minervascientifica.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/The-Hertha-Ayrton-Song-Lyrics.pdf |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 17 Jun 23 - 05:26 PM Further to SONGS ABOUT EMELIANO ZAPATA Date: 07 Jun 23 - 04:56 PM Andy Irvine sings VIVA ZAPATA at Dent Festival 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSk-FD_4pSk Viva Zapata Link to post above SONGS ABOUT EMELIANO ZAPATA |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 24 Jun 23 - 09:20 AM SONGS SUNG OR WRITTEN BY HEDY WEST April 6, 1938 Birth of American singer and songwriter Hedy West. Hedy West from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_West Songs sung by Hedy West on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=By+Hedy+West |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 29 Jun 23 - 06:23 PM THE KENTUCKIAN SONG - Eddy Arnold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LKrJX3jA6c I see my darling in each spray of summer sunlight I see my darling in the leaves that fall I see her walking in the rainy April sadness And hear her name in every bluebird call. |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 30 Jun 23 - 03:54 AM SONGS ABOUT THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN April 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was assassinated by stage actor John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth · Tony Rice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ_z6V7nMlY John Wilkes Booth - dud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khLP3iejkgE Mudcat: Lyr Req: John Wilkes Booth /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=27479&messages=13#top Lyrics to Song, on the death of President Abraham Lincoln from the Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/resource/amss.cw105410.0/?st=text The Assassin's Vision J.W. Turner · University of St. Mary's Choir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzZz73GyOW8 ”Give Us Just Another Lincoln” - Sheet music and information from Johns Hopkins University https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/008/035 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 26 Mar 24 - 07:53 AM Apr 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln BOOTH KILLED LINCOLN / BOOTH SHOT LINCOLN Booth Killed Lincoln · Cisco Houston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-sMBrOx-XA Various recordings of Booth Shot Lincoln on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=booth+shot+lincoln+song Mudcat, Lyr Req: Booth Shot Lincoln / Booth Killed Lincoln /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=40567&messages=11 THE MURDER OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN by Dennis Lee Nowick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3t9fvo0nlo ON THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN - American Pioneer Singers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VU_M5Fa-N0 "On the Death of President Abraham Lincoln Lyrics by Silas S. Steele https://electionsongs.com/12-on-the-death-of-president-abraham-lincoln Song on the Death of President Abraham Lincoln from The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection https://www.lincolncollection.org/collection/categories/item/?cat=18&page=37&item=105836 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 Apr 24 - 05:26 PM APRIL FOOL by Patti Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcR3I3Qk1XU |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 04 Apr 24 - 01:29 AM Another vote for April Fool's Day Morn by Loudon wainwright. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woaZiqmpah8" Who were his English and Irish companions? Link to post above from Geordie Downie , APRIL FOOL’S DAY MORN |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 07 Apr 24 - 01:06 PM THE DEATH OF LITTLE KATHY FISCUS April 8, 1949, Kathy Fiscus, a three-year-old girl died after falling into a well in San Marino, California. The failed rescue attempt received nationwide attention in the US as it was carried live on radio and on television. On April the 8th, the year '49, Death claimed a little child, so pure and so kind. Kathy they called her, met her doom that day. I know it was God that called her away. Recordings and information on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Death+Of+Little+KATHY+FISCUS+ Death of Kathy Fiscus as sung by Glenda Sue Richardson, Mountain View, Arkansas from The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection https://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=1224 Kathy Fiscus from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Fiscus Mudcat, ADD/Origin: Death of Little Kathy Fiscus (Osborne) /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=10213&messages=16#top |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 09 Apr 24 - 11:13 AM April 9 1898 American actor and singer Paul Robeson was born. Paul Robeson from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson Paul Robeson Playlist on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL644F31FFC8571789 1. DEEP RIVER & CURLY HEADED BABY 2. JOE HILL 3. SUMMERTIME 4.BALLAD FOR AMERICANS 5.JERUSALEM 6. ODE TO JOY 7. WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED MY LORD? 8. NEARER MY GOD TO THEE 9. LAND OF MY FATHERS 10. LOCH LOMOND 11.OLD MAN RIVER 12. THE MINSTREL BOY 13.IT AINT NECESSARILY SO 14. DRINK TO ME ONLY THINE EYES 15. NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I SEEN 16.THE HOUSE I LIVE IN 17. SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT 18.SONG OF FREEDOM 19.THAT’S WHY DARKIES WERE BORN 20.TREES 21. CONGO LULLABY 22.MA CURLEY HEADED BABY 23.JUST A WEARYING FOR YOU 24. BALM OF GILEAD 25. A PERFECT DAY 26.ERISKAY LOVE LILT 27. KILLING SONG 28. COBBLERS SONG 29.STAR VICINO 30. SCANDALIZE MY NAME! 31.DIDN’T MY LORD DELIVER DANIEL 32.MIGHTY LAK A ROSE 33. LOVE SONG 34. RIVER STAY AWAY FROM MY DOOR 35.THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE 36. CLIMBING UP THE MOUNTAIN 37.OLD FOLKS AT HOME& WAY DOWN UPON THE SWANEE 38. STEAL AWAY 39.THE BLIND PLOUGHMAN 40. PASSING BY 41.THE LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM 42.NATIVE LAND 43. SONG OF THE PLAINS 44. STAND STILL JORDAN 45. NOW SLEEPS THE CRIMSON PETAL 46. ON MY JOURNEY & MOUNT ZION 47. WHEN IT’S SLEEPY TIME DOWN SOUTH 48.THE BANJO SONG 49.MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME 50. LE CANADIEN ERRANT 51. ANTHEM FOR THE USSR 52. MEXICAN LULLABY 53.JOSHUA FIT THE BATTLE OF JERICHO 54. THE FOUR INSURGENT GENERALS 55. PAUL ROBESON MELODY 56. AT DAWNING 57. SKYE BOAT SONG 58. THE PEAT BOG SOLDIERS 59.THE PUREST KIND OF GUY 60. LITTLE PAL 61. DEEP RIVER 62.FROM BORDER TO BORDER 63. SHORTENIN BREAD 64. LET US BREAK BREAD TOGETHER ON OUR KNEES 65. OLD FOLKS AT HOME & SWANEE RIVER 66. SILENT NIGHT 67. MARY HAD A BABY 68. IT TAKES A LONG PULL TO GET THERE 69. POOR OLD JOE 70. OH NO JOHN 71. WANDERER 72.OH, HOW PROUD OUR QUIET DON. 73. CHEE LAI 74. GOSPODI GOSPODI 75. HO HO-WAGON SONG 76.JUST KEEPIN ON 77.MAMMY 78. THE FOUR RIVERS 79. CRADLE SONG 80. GOT THE SOUTH IN MY SOUL 81. DEEP RIVER & CURLY HEADED BABY 82. THE BANJO SONG
PAUL ROBESON sung by World Inferno Friendship Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgujrPPYNXs |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 10 Apr 24 - 06:41 AM April 15, 2013 The Boston Marathon bombing, a terrorist attack that took place during the annual Boston Marathon. Three people were killed and hundreds injured. Boston Marathon bombing from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing SONGS ABOUT THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING I DON’T HAVE A SONG FOR THAT - Ben Johnston and Jordan Lucero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-9rN8rJkXM NEW BEGINNING - Noah Guthrie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1YBtDcRnXA 4 -15-13 - Dropkick Murphys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjsXEpVc8w0 |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GerryM Date: 11 Apr 24 - 12:44 AM Six Irish convicts, sentenced to fourteen years deportation to Western Australia, were whisked away by the American whaler, The Catalpa, in April of 1876. THE CATALPA (Trad.) (usually sung to the tune of Rosin the Bow) A noble whale ship and commander Was called the Catalpa, they say, She came out to Western Australia And took six poor Fenians away Chorus: So come all you screws, warders and jailers Remember Perth Regatta Day. Take care of the rest of your Fenians Or the Yankees will steal them away. Seven long years they had served here And seven long more had to stay, For defending their country, old Ireland. And for that they were banished away. You kept them in Western Australia Till their hair began to turn grey, When a Yank from the States of America Came out here and stole them away. Chorus Now all the Perth boats were a-racing, And making short tacks for the spot; But the Yankee tacked into Fremantle And took the best prize of the lot. The Georgette gave chase with bold warriors With orders the Yanks to arrest But she hoisted her star-spangled banner Saying “You will not board me, I guess.” Chorus Now they've landed safe in America And there will be able to cry, “Hoist up the green flag and the shamrock. Hurrah, for old Ireland we'll die.” Many recordings on the web. Here's one by Raymond Crooke: https://youtu.be/Ec228_a89WQ?si=C8w1NxDJ0evasK1m More songs about The Catalpa THE CATALPA RESCUE,1876 by Éilis Kennedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_OSNUjNqx0 CATALPA RESCUE by Beyond the Pale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgcZm21Xxv4 CATALPA RESCUE by Catalpa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4bBEazM66c THE GOOD SHIP CATALPA by Padraig Grimes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-b7uqzm0Eo TAKE CARE OF YOUR FENIANS OR THE YANKEES WILL STEAL THEM AWAY - Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ0fYxNIByQ Mudcat, Origins: The Catalpa /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=130098 Mudcat Digitrad lyrics /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=1117,1117 Catalpa Rescue from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalpa_rescue BR> |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 12 Apr 24 - 04:17 AM WRECK OF THE OLD ‘49 Well, I'll sing you a song 'bout the old Forty Nine The fastest engine on the Santa Fe line On the fourteenth of April, she made a desp'rate dash And she got there on time and she did not crash! Wreck Of The Old 97 · Johnny Cash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PauEAvUbQLg Many recordings of ‘ Wreck Of The Old 97’ on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Wreck+Of+The+Old+97 The Wreck of the Old 97 - History and Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ggBWk-Q_NY Wreck of the Old ’49 - Shel Silverstein https://genius.com/Shel-silverstein-wreck-of-the-old-49-lyrics |
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Subject: RE: Any April Songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 16 Apr 24 - 11:15 AM April 1923 Hundreds of emigrants left the Scottish Western Isles and sailed for Canada on the SS Marloch and SS Metagama. Donald MacDonald wrote the song Fagail Bhornais about this. FAGAIL BHORNAIS - Mairi MacInnes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWYVtpntB4Y Fagail Bhornais -several other recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Fagail+Bhornais Mudcat: Lyr Add: Fagail Bhornais (Donald Macdonald /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=172513&messages=3 Emigration from Stornoway from Stornoway Historical Society https://stornowayhistoricalsociety.org.uk/emigration/ Metagama exodus shows how 1,500 people left the Western Isles a century ago article from P& J Website https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/5592385/metagama-exodus-1500-people-left-western-isles-century-ago/ Information from "Scotish News"https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/5592385/metagama-exodus-1500-people-left-western-isles-century-ago/ GUR MI BHA GÒRACH A' FÀGAIL BHÒRNAIS :Information about the song and recording from Tobar an Dualchais https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/34645?l=en |
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