The Boy Stood On The Burning Deck

Audio file

Date recorded: 1957 to 1958
Contributor(s): Performer: MacColl, Ewan; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: children's song, parody
Culture: English
Instruments: voice
Location: London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T3262
Track Number: 20
Archive ID: T3262R20
Transcript:
Belongs to: Ewan MacColl 1957/58
About the session: Recordings of Ewan MacColl made, according to Shirley Collins' note on the tape box, in 1957 or 1958. The "unidentified boy" reciting children's rhymes, according to Ewan McVicar, may be the son of a Theatre Workshop colleague of MacColl's.
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