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The Bolinder Boatman
This is a modern version of what, in the English Tradition, is called an "Occupation Ballad". Written by Ian Wood in the 1960s, I have adapted the arrangement in the form of a Blues, and I think it stands up really well. It's about the narrow boats and the broad boats that traveled around the English waterways since the Industrial revolution and the star of the song, the Bolinder is the diesel engine that powered many of these boats. There are many of them still around, over 150 years on, and working as good as ever...
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