Last of the Singers, The

DESCRIPTION: "I reckon the days is departed When folks 'us a listened to me." There was a day when people listened "To me and my purty old rhymes." Soon they will say, "The last of the zingers [singers] is dead."
AUTHOR: Words: Sabine Baring-Gould (or one of the other authors of Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd)
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd)
KEYWORDS: music death fiddle
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd, #28, "The Last of the Singers" (1 non-traditional text, 1 tune)
NOTES [73 words]: Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd refuses to print the informant's words to this tune on the grounds that the had "no merit." Which strikes me as the pot calling the kettle black. The old words at least were from oral tradition. The new words have never, as far as I know, been sung by anyone except Baring-Gould and Co. Steve Roud didn't assign them a number, and he's right to do so. For the tune, see Roud #6907 and #12857- RBW
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File: BGSW028

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