Matty Groves

Subject: Matty Groves
From:
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 05:28 PM

Has anyone here listened to this song?

It's cool :-)

Ien

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: GUEST,#1
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 05:42 PM

Which of version?

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Bernard
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 05:43 PM

Gordon Bennett! Where have you been hiding?

;o)

Round these parts, it's been the subject of many a thread!!

Rather than me make it easy for you, and spoil the fun, why not try a 'SuperSearch' - you'll be amazed at what you find!!

And if you like whatever you find
You can tell us loud and clear
But if you don't like whatever you find
Then go and have a beer...

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Bernard
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 05:46 PM

Forgot to mention - the SuperSearch is on the Forum Home page - DigiTrad Lyrics Search - or via 'Quick Links'...

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: DancingMom
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 05:51 PM

Fairport Convention , the Liege and Lief Album. Do the Super Search for info.

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 05:55 PM

And for the original version of June 24, 1630, see ZN286 in the broadside ballad index on my website.

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Abby Sale
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 06:04 PM

Na, yer all wrong. Even Bruce. The real original version is in the database at Clicky

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Bernard
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 06:07 PM

I suspect a wind-up. The [e-mail] email address is a fake!!

I tried it, and this is what I got:

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----


----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to air-zc02.mail.aol.com.:
>>> RCPT To:
<<< 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND
550 ... User unknown

COME CLEAN, MATEY!!

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 06:16 PM

No flies on you, Bernard!

Hope the wind up didn't offend others

Snatch

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Willie-O
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 08:16 PM

Matty Grovessung by Morag McNairnay in a derelict schoolbus on a mountainside in BC. Guitar parts, including my best electric Fairport imitation, by me.

Apologize for the commercial, it's automatic and of course shameless.

Duh, what's a windup?

Willie-O

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Willie-O
Date: 13 Apr 01 - 08:24 PM

By the way Abby, Fatty Groves was hilarious. I lost track of who was philandering who, which is part of the point I guess...

Nice to see ya round! (Course that's what they said to Fatty I expect).

W-O

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Fiolar
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 05:06 AM

Is "Matty Groves" another version of "Little Musgrave"? They both seem to have the same story line.

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Susan of DT
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 09:19 AM

Yes, Fiolar, they are the same song, both Child #81. When you find a Child or DT number on a song (toward the bottom), you can search on that #whatever to find other versions of the same song.

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: GUEST,Not a song writer
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 09:34 AM

Since this thread seems to have started as a troll (though it has lead to some interesting posts), and given the talent here - can someone write a song called "Batty Droves", - could describe the well meaning folk who take the bait. Taking control and redirecting the thread, however, does seem very effective (and I don't mean to suggest those who have posted are batty - just seems a good song title.

NaSW

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Bernard
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 09:46 AM

'Wind-up' - tensioning the spring in a clockwork device, usually by inserting and turning a key, so that the device becomes energised.

Applied to humans it usually indicates a mischievous (?!)intent to provoke someone, often to make them 'lose their cool'.

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 14 Apr 01 - 01:02 PM

Abby, leave Mudcat alone, and finish up editing the SSS MS! I'm not the only one getting impatient to see 'Musa Proterva' published. I sent Murray some notes on P. Buchan's sources for some of the songs in SSS, and Murray is pretty close to a microfilm copy of that source.

Subject: Matty Groves words
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 06:16 AM

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 02:11 PM

I wonder what happened to Lenny in The Groves family. He used to advertise Parker pens at the height of his fame.

Subject: RE: Matty Groves
From: Snuffy
Date: 18 Dec 05 - 02:18 PM

He's probably old enough to be "faint from lack of nourishment" now.