XPost: uk.music.folk   
   From: firstname@lastname.oc.ku   
      
   Abby Sale wrote:   
   > On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:02:36 -0400, S Viemeister    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> I remember loads of people singing that in the 60s, but you may well be   
   >> right about Archie and Ray recording it first.   
   >> It was common knowledge on the Edinburgh and Glasgow folk scene in the   
   >> 60s, that Thurso Berwick AKA Morris Blythman had found that old Breton   
   >> tune and married it to the Twa Corbies.   
   >> And the famous little red songbook credits him with it.   
   >   
   > Ray, not Archie.  And her singing is still thrilling.   
   >   
   > I minor "well" here, you'll excuse me.  Little _green_ songbook.  Oi! I   
   > can't find my 'red.'  Maybe it's in there, too.   
   >   
      
   It's definitely in the red - I'd quote it, but my copy is in my living   
   room in Scotland, and I'm elsewhere.  I don't have the green one.   
      
   >   
   >   
   > Sheila, do we know each other?   
   >   
   >   
   We know/knew a number of the same people, but I don't think we've met.   
      
   Sheila   
      
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