Ursula (The Swansea Song)

Album: The Harvest Years (1972)
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  • According to the December 1992 issue of the fanzine Nova Lepidoptera, "Ursula (The Swansea Song)" was written about the same thing as "Someone There You Know" - a failed love affair - and at a particularly traumatic time in Wolstenholme's life. >>>
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    Alexander Baron - London, England

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  • Zabadak from London, EnglandI went to University in Swansea and bought this LP in a second-hand record shop there.
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