by NRB | 9 Mar 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Most readers will be familiar with Johnny Cash’s vengeful diatribe about the dirty, mangy dog who named his son Sue … First names go in and out of fashion. Few parents now would name a daughter Gertrude or a son Ernest but they were both once common –...
by NRB | 5 Feb 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Responding to my column about execution songs, an NRB reader made some suggestions and remarked that, for train songs, there were ‘300 and counting’. I’m sure there is a list somewhere on the web but I’m contenting myself with a few that I’ve become aware of over the...
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