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  • Mad Family
  • Two Brothers
  • The Looking Glass
  • Little Yellow Roses
  • The Banks of the Nile
  • Kemp Owen
  • Sheepcrook and Black Dog
  • Grey Goose and Gander
  • The Shepherd's Daughter
  • King Henry

 

FSC Cover

The songbook of Forest School Camps, a fabulous organisation with marvelous ethos and music. I've adapted the text slightly from their version, but hopefully still a great song.

Nursery Rhymes Cover

A great source of nonsense. Mostley snippets, but this longer text was calling out for a tune, kindly supplied by Jon Boden.

 

Fox Jumps Over Cover

Peter Bellamy was the king of all singers and this is a cracking album. Long time unavailable, it is now downloadable in MP3 format.

 

Kipling Cover

I was given Bellamy's own copy of this book after his death by a mutual friend so I learnt this song from the text he set it to the music by, pencil scribbled comments and all.

 

FSC Cover

The songbook of Forest School Camps, a fabulous organisation with marvelous ethos and music. This song has a blurry origin, but immense power. I sing it as I learnt it.

Bushes and Briars Cover

I learnt this for the Ralph Vaughan Willams bi-centenery celebrations at Cecil Sharp House. The Roy Palmer book is full of well-known and little-known gems. I have altered the text to help me understand it.

 

Oxford Ballads Cover

A classic for ballads, available from most good Oxfam shops. I have adapted the text from the Scotts dialect into my kind of English, and edited to make a mere 7 minutes long version.

 

I learnt this song from a photocopy for the Ralph Vaughan Willams bi-centenery celebrations at Cecil Sharp House. I'm not sure where it came from, but the Roy Palmer book is full of well-known and little-known gems.

 

Hudleston Cover

The original audio reel-to-reel tapes are held in The University of Sheffield archives, but this transcribed tomb is commercially available from the publisher, Pindar & Son. A nonsense song collected from Burt Dobson near where my Grandmother lived in Heptonstall.

Arthur Knevett Cover

One of my favorite singers of all time, this tape was given to me by a friend 10 years ago and I have cherished it since. Hard to get a copy of, but well worth it if you can.

 

Hudleston Cover

The original audio reel-to-reel tapes are held in The University of Sheffield archives, but this transcribed tomb is commercially available from the publisher, Pindar & Son. King Henry has been chopped about a bit to make a song out of some snippets.

 
   
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