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This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 2999, "subject": "The mind boggles", "messages": 2, "voices": 2, "first": "2002-02-27T00:40:02+00:00", "last": "2002-02-27T00:46:17+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Nigel Price", "address": "nigel.a.price at virgin.net" }, "date": "2002-02-27T00:46:17+00:00", "subject": "(urth) The mind boggles", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I've been *ever* so self-disciplined and managed to hold myself back from\nentering the who-has-the-best-hymns debate (a bit of everything at" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Cirencester Baptist Church, from jazz to early music), but Nutria wrote:\nI wrote Wolfe a decade ago a list of questions,\nincluding what kinds of music he likes best...\n(I didn't bother to ask about rock; I'd read\nenough Wolfe already). He replied that he favors\nfilk, and that was his hobby music. So, SF all\nthe way when it comes to old Gene!" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Peter Wright told me that when he stayed with GW, he discovered that our\nfavourite author listens to rock music while he exercises on his exercise\nbike in the morning and that he, Peter, had been introducing him to the\ndelights of Iron Maiden, whose music, he maintained, had made a favourable\nimpression. I just found this all too mind boggling for words. GW is almost\nmy father's age! (I think the only album of popular music my father owns is\nan Emmylou Harris record, but that's just an abberation and he never\nactually plays it.)\n\nI was interested in GW's use of the traditional folk song \"Flash Company\" in\nthe story of that name, though, and wondered which version he had been\nlistening to. The lyrics quoted in the story are slightly different from\nthose I'm familiar with in the version sung by June Tabor. Any ideas,\nanyone? (I'm assuming that Iron Maiden have never recorded this particular\nditty.)\n\nNigel (bass, guitar, mandolin)" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Andy Robertson", "address": "andywrobertson at clara.co.uk" }, "date": "2002-02-27T00:40:02+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) The mind boggles", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "----- Original Message -----" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "From: \"Nigel Price\" \nI was interested in GW's use of the traditional folk song \"Flash Company\"" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "in" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "the story of that name, though, and wondered which version he had been\nlistening to. The lyrics quoted in the story are slightly different from\nthose I'm familiar with in the version sung by June Tabor. Any ideas,\nanyone? (I'm assuming that Iron Maiden have never recorded this particular\nditty.)" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Also known a \"The Yellow Handkerchief\".\n\nThese are the trad words as I hear tell\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor once I loved a young girl as I loved my life\nAnd I thought in my heart I would make her my wife.\nWith her white cotton stockings, and her high ankle shoes\nAnd she wears a yellow handkerchief wherever she goes.\n\ncho:\n\nSo take this yellow handkerchief in remembrance of me\nAnd tie it round your neck, my love, in flash companie.\nFlash companie, my boys, like a good many more\nIf it hadn't a been for flash companie I should never a been\n so poor.\n\nFor with fiddling and dancing 'twas all my delight\nIn keeping such company it ruined me quite.\nIt has ruined me quite, my boys, like a great many more\nIf it hadn't a been for flash companie I should never a been\n so poor.\n\ncho:\n\nFor once I had a color as red as the rose\nBut now I'm as pale as the lily that grows.\nLike a flower in the garden all my color has gone\nSo you see what I'm coming to from loving that one.\n\n\n(Note: Supplementary verses reported by Kennedy)\nFirst I loved Thomas and then I loved John\nAnd then I loved William, he's a clever young man\nWith his white cotton stockings and his low ankle shoes\nAnd he wears a blue jacket wherever he goes.\n\nThe rocks shall run to water and the sea shall run dry\nIf ever I prove false, my love, to the girl that loves I\nIn the middle of the ocean there shall grow a myrtle tree\nIf ever I prove false, my love, to the girl that loves me.\n\nCome all you pretty flash girls take warning by me\nAnd never build your nest in the top of any tree\nFor the leaves they will wither and the roots they will decay\nAnd the beauty of a young girl will soon fade away.\n\n\n\n\nAre they the ones Wolfe uses?\n\n\nMaybe he is a folkie as well as a filkie?\n\n\n hartshorn (finger in me ear)" } ] } ] }