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From: NO_SPAM_asale@ft.newyorklife.com
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>"Stephen & Marilyn Suffet" wrote in message
>news:45A4DC48.38EA4C1D@worldnet.att.net...
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>> I have entirely different versions of "Three Foot Seam," the traditional
>> miners' song.
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:46:32 -0000, "Java Jive" wrote:
>I'm not sure whether it's actually traditional or not - my vinyl "The
>World Of Ewan MacColl And Peggy Seeger" (SPA-A 102) has the following on the
>sleeve ...
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>"""Ballad Of Springhill
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No relationship between them other than theme. "Ballad Of Springhill" was
written by Peggy Seeger. Per her own account: "I have since been down many
mines, but back then I had never been down a pit, knew no miners and no
mining terms, so when Ewan came to visit he supplied several lines for
verse 4. The Canadians have adopted the song-it is occasionally mistaken
for a folksong."
There are thousands of coal-mining songs, even many trad songs about the
many previous cave-ins in Springhill, itself. (Vaguely to the point
factoid: This was the 453rd earth movement in the area since 1917). There
is _also_ "The Springhill Mining Disaster" by Maurice Ruddick, who was
trapped in the mine for 8 1/2 days.
Steven Sellors and/or Cathryn Ward noted to r.m.f in 1999 on the latter and
wrote: "I like it because it was written by someone actually trapped in the
mine. Now there's something you don't see much in the folk music industry
these days: a song about the working man written by the working man."
I assume he meant other than as a folksinger. Do folksingers work? Well,
not in this context, I guess but Steve may be justified to feel otherwise.
So not to worry. It's easy to confuse all this. It is "The Ballad of
Springhill" that's the famous one but there are others.
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