Request: Lyrics to "Oh Pendle" and "Dublin in the Rare Old Times"

[Brian J Haskell]

I am looking for the lyrics to the English folksong "Oh Pendle," about the
hill located in the Pennines, and a song called "Dublin in the Rare Old
Times." I believe the latter may have been written by somebody called
Peter StJohn (?). It's those annoying cases where I can get about 95% of
the lyrics off a tape, but have to resort to "da-di-dah-di-dah" in a few
places. (And no, they're not in the Digitrad database. :-)

Thanks!

Brian
has...@maroon.tc.umn.edu

[Gary Martin]

In article <3nh98r$8...@maroon.tc.umn.edu> has...@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Brian J Haskell) writes:

I am looking for the lyrics to the English folksong "Oh Pendle," about the
hill located in the Pennines, and a song called "Dublin in the Rare Old

It's on Cliff Haslam's album _The Clockwinder_ on Folk-Legacy. It's
credited to an author named "Lambert", but the details are on the
detailed notes that are too big to fit in the cassette shell, and
consequently lost.

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Gary A. Martin, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, UMass Dartmouth
Mar...@cis.umassd.edu

[Kelsey Thornton]

In article <3nh98r$8...@maroon.tc.umn.edu>, Brian J Haskell (has...@maroon.tc.umn.edu) writes:
>I am looking for the lyrics to the English folksong "Oh Pendle," about the
>hill located in the Pennines

>Brian
>has...@maroon.tc.umn.edu

From memory, the chorus goes like this:

Oh Pendle, Oh Pendle
Thou standest alone
'Twixt Burnley and Clitheroe,
Barley and Colne,
Where Hodder and Pendle's fair waters do meet,
With Newchurch and Barley content at thy feet.

As a former resident of Burnley (one of the towns listed in the
above song) I'm intrigued to know where you heard the song. I
assumed that it was (probably) never heard outside the North of
England.

(I suppose the Pendle Witches might be answerable?)

I'll do a bit more research to try to find the rest of the lyrics

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Kelsey Thornton Z...@liberator.win-uk.net