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