Thursday 10 January 2013
64: Oh Mr Cameron
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This song is written by Norma Parry, the mum of singer and onetime Liverpool Echo Merseyside busker of the year Alun Parry . The tune is ...
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Monday 24 December 2012
63: Birkenhead Wassail Song
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A "wassail" song - that is, a song for door to door carol singing. The term wassail comes from an Anglo Saxon toast meaning &qu...
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Tuesday 18 December 2012
62: The World Was In Darkness
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An advent song... but the usual questions come up: is it really a Liverpool song? Is it a folk song? Hard to say, but this was a big part...
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Friday 30 November 2012
61: O Scottie Road
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This is a song I first learned from a couple of Evertonians I met. They could only remember a bit of it, but after some digging around, I...
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Sunday 18 November 2012
60: The Cruise of the Calabar
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A song about the perils of life aboard a canal barge; a parody of tales of danger and bravery on the high seas, the humour comes from the...
Sunday 11 November 2012
59: My Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier
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Frank Kidson collected a verse ("I'll dye my petticoats, I'll dye them red") and the chorus of this song from Alfred Mo...
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Wednesday 31 October 2012
58: Buckets of the Mersey
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We certainly love our public art in Liverpool, from the Lewis's statue exceedingly bare to the Superlambanana. Even so, I was surpri...
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