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- From: jerry@hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
- Subject: Re: Words (and chords?) to "Fair Flower of Northumberland"DIR/NEW
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.092939.584@hnrc.tufts.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 14:29:39 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.014656.10684@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
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- In article <1992Dec30.014656.10684@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>, scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
- > Looking for words and chords to a song -- the title was something
- > like "Fair Flower of Northumberland", and the tag line on each
- > chorus was a minor variant of "and you're still the fair flower
- > of Northumberland." The story was that some handsome chieftan was
- > captured but convinces the local noblemans daughter to free him.
- > Has a nice pair of surprises at the end, neither of which I'll
- > reveal here. Ring any bells? I've never heard it on record or
- > radio, but the person who sang it claimed it was "traditional".
- > I'd ask her myself, but haven't seen her in a decade or so.
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- Sara Grey record it (in duet with Ed Trickett) on her Folk Legacy album.
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