Description
DESCRIPTION
An English Folk Music Anthology, recorded between 1974 and 1980, features 47 tracks of nursery songs, ballads, and broadsides, as well as more contemporary political and union songs. Performers include rural and urban singers from all walks of life (housewives, retired bankers, coal miners, and many more), travelers, and children. The liner notes provide information on English folk music as well as song lyrics, and background on each track; there are also extensive references and a bibliography.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Once in China
2 Old Roger Is Dead
3 The Fox
4 Kyman I-Doe
5 There Was a Lady Mrs. Green
6 The Worms Crept Out
7 Children's Songs with Games, Actions
8 Henry My Son
9 Parody and Impropriety
10 Wim Wim Wobble O
11 Lent Crocking Song
12 Six Jolly Miners
13 Cob Coaling Song
14 The Captain's Song
15 Carhampton Wassail Song
16 The Herring's Head
17 The Derby Ram
18 Lord Lovell
19 The Fourteenth of December
20 The Deserter
21 The Maid of Australia
22 Butter and Cheese and All
23 All Jolly Fellows That Follow the Plough
- Disc 2 -
1 The Two Butchers
2 Young A-Growing
3 He Pulled a Dagger
4 There Was An Old Man Lived in Yorkshire
5 The Battle of Sahagun
6 McCathery
7 Maggie May
8 Jimmy MacElbee
9 Jimmy Run Down to Your Uncles
10 Do You Know Me Father / There Was An Old Man / I Lost My Arm (Medley)
11 The Ringarangroo
12 The Game of Football
13 T'bobbin Winder's Song
14 The Doggey Putter
15 Joe Hill
16 Hallelujah I'm a Bum
17 Harry Was a Bolshie
18 The Forty Pound Car
19 Canteen Tea
20 The Big Hewer and the Little Marra
21 The Shrewsbury Three
22 Demonstration Songs and Chants
23 No Cruise Missles
24 A Simple Lad Like Me
