I know I could Google

but this newsgroup surely prefers the folk-memory approach

So, was there a song done in the mid-1970s by a folkie super-group
in memory of one John Lee, the only person to escape hanging because
of a once-in-a-lifetime (had to be really!) three-in-a-row trap-door 
malfunction?

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Gill Smith  wrote:

> I know I could Google
> 
> but this newsgroup surely prefers the folk-memory approach
> 
> So, was there a song done in the mid-1970s by a folkie super-group
> in memory of one John Lee, the only person to escape hanging because
> of a once-in-a-lifetime (had to be really!) three-in-a-row trap-door 
> malfunction?

It's a whole LP, 'John Babbacombe Lee' by Fairport Convention. The LP
contains a handsome historical booklet too. Super album.

The sentence was commuted to life. Lee said on his release that he would
rather have been hanged.

Cheers
Jim


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"Jim Ellison"  wrote in message 
news:1j5n50r.1xyvlg11sxcthmN%jim@invalid.co.uk...
> Gill Smith  wrote:
>
>> I know I could Google
>>
>> but this newsgroup surely prefers the folk-memory approach
>>
>> So, was there a song done in the mid-1970s by a folkie super-group
>> in memory of one John Lee, the only person to escape hanging because
>> of a once-in-a-lifetime (had to be really!) three-in-a-row trap-door
>> malfunction?
>
> It's a whole LP, 'John Babbacombe Lee' by Fairport Convention. The LP
> contains a handsome historical booklet too. Super album.
>
> The sentence was commuted to life. Lee said on his release that he would
> rather have been hanged.

Thanks

nice to know I've not gone completely doo-lally yet, making stuff up.

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Song in memory of my father http://www.gillsmith999.plus.com/