Lyr Add: Bonny White Hare (trad. arr. Scrump)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bonny White Hare (trad. arr. Scrump)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 02:43 PM

Enjoyed "Bonny White Hare."
More digression
Salvage has been a traditional coastal occupation since time immemorable ial? (sp?); songs need to be composed about this latest wreck.

These were commercial containers, no used personal nappies (diapers) involved.

Shots of the barrels of wine being corraled made me want to book a flight and join in the fun.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bonny White Hare (trad. arr. Scrump)
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 07:24 AM

Q, there have been a few news reports of people who were emigrating, whose whole lives were in a couple of those containers. And they watched in horror on TV as their personal possessions were plundered. It would be like watching someone rob your house.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bonny White Hare (trad. arr. Scrump)
From: Folkiedave
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 06:18 PM

Can we just get it clear - these were not locals doing a bit of beach combing. The locals were having their gardens trampled over by people from all over GB who came to steal. Two blokes from Middlesbrough came to steal motor bikes.

Hardly traditional. But even if it was then is shouldn't have been allowed. Bull-baiting and dog-fighting are traditional. Doesn't mean to say we should be in favour of them nowadays.

That last word was there to indicate I am not condemning those who did it long ago when social circumstances were different.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Bonny White Hare (trad. arr. Scrump)
From: Scrump
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 06:56 AM

Well, I've written a tune for it now. Not sure how I can write it down as I don't know ABC notation. As befits a traditional song like this one, the tune's similar to a lot of other tunes, but I hope not quite the same as any of them. (But knowing my luck, there will be some b*gg*r who recognises it as a tune I hadn't heard, and say I copied it from a "real" traditional tune.)