I remember Stan Hugill at Dingles back in the 1970s introducing The Drunken Sailor (or alluding to it before singing another song - it's a long timew ago!) by...
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Feb 1, 2009 8:52 am
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... Indeed -- there's this odd notion among people who write for kids that pirates are cute. No mention of rum, sodomy, the lash, etc.. Anyway, the Traditional...
Paul Stamler
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Feb 2, 2009 5:12 am
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It certainly won't do to suggest to small children that the world (including pirates) is anything other than "I love you, you love me" nice! Don't want to...
Working in schools I don't use Drunken Sailor. I generally keep off the topic of drink. Although Roll the Old Chariot, with it's 'drop of Nelson's Blood', is...
Hello Folks, This April will see the second anniversary of the death of our good friend Barry Callaghan, known to many of you, who was a very active supporter...
If any other Tradsong members will be at Dartington summer music school first week ie 25 July - 1 Aug this year, and would like to meet and maybe have a...
Dear All Another question based on a song in the Ella Leather collection, please find below the text and details of "Shrewsbury Gaol", some of the lines are...
Final preparations for next weeks meeting are now dropping into place. and we are looking forward to a great day with presentations from Bill Murray (Devon),...
Quick search of Hindley's curiosities doesn't reveal it, although it is a typical 'goodnight' ballad. Shrewsbury assizes records might turn up something. ...
Hi Martin, Apologies for absence, but I'm going to have to give this one a miss. The Injuns are fairly flying round the covered wagons at the moment. Cheers, ...
Hi Martin Just a quick note to tender my apologies for absence. Would have loved to come, but distance, and club meeting in Guildford the night before make it...
The following enquiry came to the Folklore Society Library - if anyone can help, please contact Maurice direct (as well as the list) ... From: Maurice WA...
Steve Roud
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Feb 22, 2009 6:12 pm
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Dear Tradsongers, Greetings! Some of you may have seen the following letter in today's copy of "The Times": ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (Letter starts) Sir, I...
Oh dear! I pity the poor editor of the Times as the hordes of angry folksong scholars swamp the Letters pages! This particular controversy seems to have arisen...
I thought it was BELFAST that she of The Black Velvet Band had fetched up in! You do interest me about its East Anglian origin/connection, though. Could you...
Sandy Easton
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Feb 24, 2009 12:16 am
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This is not an either/or question. These songs are Irish and they are also English. In other words there are Irish versions and there are English versions. The...
You are quite right Lewis about correcting such errors, because they do become persistent. I'm sure the writer could defend his claims as information found on...
... fetched up in! You do interest me about its East Anglian origin/connection, though. Could you point me in the direction of such a version, please? On...
Sandy The East Anglian connection referred to is Harry Cox. You can hear him singing the Black Velvet Band on the Topic CD, *Bonny Labouring Man* - see ...
And what of the Wild Rover? I was led to believe that the earliest known documentation was in Norfolk, though this sounds a remarkably similar story to the...
This weekend I attended a music school in Schwabisch Hall, Germany concerned with folk and early music. I was told so many times over the weekend how fortunate...
Hello, Matthew! Thanks very much indeed for all those pointers! They should keep me busy for a while. Sandy Easton. ... From: Matthew Edwards To:...
Sandy Easton
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Feb 24, 2009 3:14 pm
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Yes, I had heard about the Norfolk connection to The Wild Rover as long ago as the 1970s, when I was going to The Triangle folk club in EDINBURGH. Could there...
Sandy Easton
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Feb 24, 2009 5:05 pm
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And what of the other versions of Wild Rover found in other parts of England? We are currently using a version collected by Gardener in Dorset. Steve ... And...
Apparently there is a fair amount of discussion on the interweb about the origins of All Around My Hat, reckoned in the Times letter to be of Irish origin. To...
Another great Norfolk singer, Sam Larner, had a really nice version of the Wild Rover. Again, it’s on a Topic CD, Now Is the Time for Fishing Listen at...
I take it you have to join last.fm to get access to these goodies. Certainly the links don't seem to work automatically. The joining process is, however, the...
Sandy Easton
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Feb 24, 2009 11:35 pm
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Howard Jones and myself have made it on to the Time Online responses with regard to this issue. ...
Greetings, o ye learned ones! In his introduction to Sir John Barleycorn, as found in Ancient Poems, Ballads And Songs Of The Peasantry Of England, Robert Bell...
Sandy Easton
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Feb 25, 2009 2:40 am
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5. Mas' Mault Whilst the four songs above are all but exclusively about John Barleycorn as barley, the remaining two are entirely about beer and its effects on...
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