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GUEST,Ewan McVicar	Lyr Req: The World Must Be Coming to an End (12)	RE: Lyr Req: The world must be coming to an end	19 Jun 04
It's on the brand new Lomax disc of 1951 recordings of Scottish Children's Songs, on Rounder, with more of a story to it. The kids who sing it omit the first verse "I merrit me a wife, she's the plague o ma life" that Ritchie prints in his book, but they do sing "Ah bought her a coffin, an she fell through the bottom, Ah buried her in dirt and she jumped oot her shirt." Plus I and other Scots songwriters in schools have made something like a hundred new verses with kids. For example: "We sent her for toothpaste, she fell over a loose lace. She tried to cross the road and turned into a toad. We sent her for a biscuit but she didny want tae risk it. We sent her for a bun and she turned intae a nun. We sent her for spaghetti and she came back wi a Yeti." There are over 70 songs etc on the album, plus interviews with Ritchie, MacColl and Henderson, all in 1951. It was a serious pleasure top make it.

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