Ewan MacColl with his mother and Peggy Seeger

Ewan MacColl

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[banjostead]

My pleasure Dick,

Joe Stead

[banjostead]

it's strange how time clouds and changes perspectives.

[dickmilesmusic]

absolutely brilliant, thanks for putting this up, dick miles

[birdstuckinchimney]

@donnydumpling Actually this is not the wonderful Rabbie Burns poem 'Man Was Made To Mourn', it's the wonderful Rabbie Tannahill poem 'A Wee Drappie O't''.

You can be forgiven for the confusion though as Burns obviously loaned the repeating schematic of his lyric from the first line of the verse of Tannahill's poem that is sung here.

[jamo387]

Doesn't matter anyway. The guy was a dopey commie. He sang the praises of mass murderer commies like this one from "The Ballad of Stalin":

"Joe Stalin was a mighty man and a mighty man was he

He led the Soviet people on the road to victory."

The guy was a F*cking idiot irrespective of his ethnicity.

[missporrige]

@KennBurch Haha okay dear calm down. I was talking about Ewan MacColl mainly anyway. If you look on my page, I did a play of his and had to do a lot of research about him.

[hetrodoxly]

@KennBurch

I've just stated some facts and mentioned nothing of what you claim? lallans isn't just a Saxon word it's a Saxon language it's now been accepted by the European commission pushed through by Northern Irish royalists.

[KennBurch]

Respond to this video...And there is no contradiction in Ewan's love of his childhood home of Salford and his Scottish ethnic and cultural identity. There was a large Scottish exile community in Salford working in the mills.

Face it, he was Scottish and there's no reason to try to take that from him. It's not as if it makes him a superior person if you claim him as English.



[KennBurch]

@hetrodoxly Whether or not the word Lallans was Saxon in origin, it was still a SCOTTISH literary movement and Ewan's parents were Scottish(his mother was Highland Scottish, his father was Lowland Scots). There is no good reason to try to deny Ewan's Scottish ethnicity. Why would anyone insist on doing that?

[KennBurch]

@missporrige No.  Peggy NEVER changed HER name. She was(and still IS) Peggy Seeger. Her father was Charles Seeger, the founder of the discipline of musicology, her younger brother was Mike Seeger, a solo performer and also a member of the New Lost City Ramblers...and, of course, her older half-brother is a guy named Pete who still plays banjo and leads singalongs.