Song of the Week – The Champion
This weeks song was written by the legendary Viscount Edward “Fast Eddie” Zifran of Gendy (E F Morrill), kind of, at least. I came across the song in a songbook from Oertha. I learned the song and made it part of my repertoire. Then one year the Board met in Orlando. I dropped by in the evening, with my guitar of course, and made the acquaintance of Mr Morrill. When I said I knew the song, he was quite interested and so I performed it for him. After, he admitted that the version I had learned was not quite the version he had written. We exchanged information, he agreed that I could record the song and further agreed to send me a copy of his original version of the song so that I could do it instead. I’m still waiting… =)
Again, a quick reminder that though this version is Creative Commons licensed, the original version of the song is Copyright by E F Morrill.
The Champion by Glen E Hammer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Not a Bard 