Musicians in Town

“And then of course you get the visiting characters, you had Johnny Crabtoes and you had, eh, Old McAfee the Fiddler […] and he would’ve played a tune and they would’a went on and then they would’a come in with the hand out lookin’ for money. […] Then he would’a got a violin string, we had violin strings at that time, and he’d maybe broke a violin string coming down, down Castle Street, and we had to give him a new violin string. […] And he liked a wee drink too and they played a while and then disappeared.”

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