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RE: 3 Folk Songs For Three Tune Tuesday ("Dirty Old Town" "The Lakes of Pontchartrain" "The Parting Glass")

in Hive Music4 years ago

Ewan MacColl was born in England but his parents were Scottish and one of his most famous tunes is an Irish anthem .... :) Id bet hardly anyone knows Dirty Old Town was written to fill time during an awkward scene change in a play written by MacColl in 1949 called Landscape with Chimneys...

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I did not know that. We like adopting the Scots. Mike Scott also for fishermans blues