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Lyr Add: Foot and Mouth Disease ^^ DigiTrad: INFLUENZA Related threads: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs (COVID-19; Pandemic) (162) Songs About Disease (99) Songs of the 1919 Flu Pandemic (34) Folk songs of disease (48) The Spanish Flu. (7) BS: flu - to jab or not to jab? (96) Lyr Req: Memphis Flu (Elder Curry) (11) Mexican Corrido about the 1918 Influenza (16) BS: Influenza Britain (31) INFLUENZA (30)
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Subject: ADD: Foot and Mouth Disease ^^ From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 27 Feb 01 - 08:04 PM The present crisis around Foot and Mouth disease in England set me thinking about a song that Joseph Plunkett wrote. (For more about Plunkett, who was a signatory of they Proclamation in the Easter Rising in 1916, and was shot for it after the surrender, see here, with a good selection of poems - but not this one.)
Anyway, the tune it goes with is The Groves of Blarney:
As I walked over to Magheraroarty
On my father's land there are many mansions
With these words deceitful sure he was cheated, The thing about Foot and Mouth is that though it's terribly infectious, it's not that serious a disease for the beasts involved, they'd be unlikely to die of it - but they are slaughtered because that's seen as a cheaper option. Peasant farmers in Ireland at the start of the century bitterly resented that policy.
(To see a song of my own about BSE, click here And here is another ballad by Plunkett, which I put a tune of my own too since I don't know what tune he'd have had for it, click here).
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Foot and Mouth Disease From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 27 Feb 01 - 08:14 PM Those links to the songs might just take you to the page on my site, rather than the songs, and there's quite a lot of those - the first one is The BSE Song, and the second is The Planets Seven, and with "Find" it's easy to run them down. The one by Joseph Mary Plunkett (The Planets) is definitely worth having a look at. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Foot and Mouth Disease ^^ From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 28 Feb 01 - 05:31 AM Thanks, Kevin, I've forwarded this to Herself who works for the lab that does all the testing for F & M and work on the vaccine and research the spread and mutation of the virus. They're all pretty busy at the moment as you can imagine(!) but they do have some folkish singers on the staff so this might appeal to them for their next social club concert. RtS |
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