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Lyr Req: The Girl from Garstang

07 Mar 02 - 03:33 PM (#664443)
Subject: Lyrics Reqd:The Girl from Garstang
From: jimlad

Lyrics required for an old song "The Girl From Garstang" It begins with the line "Her hair was fair,the girl from Garstang" Garstang is a small town in Lancashire England


07 Mar 02 - 04:10 PM (#664492)
Subject: RE: Lyrics Reqd:The Girl from Garstang
From: Herga Kitty

Jim - I can't help directly but it might be worth contacting Strawhead. Garstang Morris comprised members of Strawhead, Alan Bond and other luminaries of the English folk scene, were revived for the 1992 Preston Guilds, for which the Lamb and Flag show was also composed and (in the Strawhead contingent) included Gregg Butler who sings Nell Flaherty's Drake on which another thread is currently running.... but Gregg has done loads of research on local songs. If no-one local (I'm from south of Watford) chips in, PM me and I'll send you contact details.

Kitty


08 Mar 02 - 08:39 AM (#664975)
Subject: RE: Lyrics Reqd:The Girl from Garstang
From: Grab

Be interested to know of that, since I started out from that area (Lytham). Oddly, there don't seem to be too many songs about the Fylde and Bowland area.

Graham.


08 Mar 02 - 12:18 PM (#665122)
Subject: RE: Lyrics Reqd:The Girl from Garstang
From: greg stephens

I wrote a song called "Rhubarb City" about Galgate for a theatre show that never got produced, and I cannot for the life of me remember a word of it, except possibly "It must be three feet long and as thick as your arm, A nice bite of that wouldn't do any harm" which was part of the chorus. The rest was in similar vein. The script contained a lot of Lancashire humour. or at least the couple of scenes Iwas sent did.


09 Mar 02 - 06:08 AM (#665635)
Subject: RE: Lyrics Reqd:The Girl from Garstang
From: clansfolk

Greg can be emailed at

gregg.butler@btinternet.com

Have checked local sources without luck - why not put a request out on the Fylde folk Web Site Guest Book?

http://www.fyldefolk.co.uk

Good luck - we're always on the look out for Lanky songs especially songs from the Fylde area.

Pete (clansfolk)- Penny Black

http://www.pennyblack.n3.net