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  1. Fortune Turns The Wheel
    Jun 22, 2015 · original
    Jon says “So here we are. Song 365. It’s possibly not the most appropriate farewell song given the sting in the tale. Over the years there were a fair few regulars who got themselves barred from the Half Moon – I always think of them when I sing this! But it is goodbye from me. […]
  2. Banks Of Sweet Primroses
    Jun 21, 2015 · original
    Jon recalls “This I learnt for a tribute concert to Fred Jordan at Cecil Sharp House shortly after his death. I missed out on hearing him sing sadly, but love his voice. This narrowly lost out to Larks They Sang Melodious for Midsummer’s day last year and then I thought about putting it last, but […]
  3. The Way Through The Woods
    Jun 20, 2015 · original
    Jon reveals “I learnt this to sing at Rudyard Kipling’s house Batemans last year – we recorded a couple of songs on to wax cylinder in Kipling’s living room. Visitors can now play the wax cylinders back as part of the exhibition, which is nice. It’s a lovely song this, despite the odd dodgy line […]
  4. Bold Archer
    Jun 19, 2015 · original
    Jon admits “I think this is the only song I’ve learnt from Harrry Cox – off The Bonny Labouring Boy double CD. Much as I enjoyed listening to it, this was the only one that demanded to be learnt. Evidently John Kirkpatrick thought the same as he recorded it with Brass Monkey shortly after I […]
  5. Roll Alabama
    Jun 18, 2015 · original
    Jon recalls “I used to sing this a lot when I got started with fiddle-singing. It always used to go down well at the Talking Heads in Southampton. One of the great shanty choruses I think, although I’m not sure it’s actually a work shanty?” According to Mudcat it’s a halyard shanty and today marks […]
  6. The Eighteenth Day Of June
    Jun 17, 2015 · original
    Jon attributes his source as “Sung by the mighty Wilsons on the fabulous Voices CD from Fellside. I think they had it from Pete Wood. Shame it doesn’t have a chorus as it feels like it should do, or at very least a refrain. Never mind, It’s a great song anyway.” After yesterday’s epic this […]
  7. Grand Conversation With Napoleon
    Jun 16, 2015 · original
    Jon admits this is “One of the wordier Napoleon songs but a cracking tune and some really nice details. Interesting that the song’s sympathies seem to shift right at the end of the song – editorial perhaps? Certainly it seems pretty pro-Bonaparte in the opening verses.” I’d say this is one of several wordy Napoleon […]
  8. Farmer’s Boy
    Jun 15, 2015 · original
    Jon says “It’s such a classic this one but I’m not sure how widely known it is outside of the traddier end of the folk scene? Will Noble sings this round our way.” Although it might not be a common song today, it is the regimental song of the Duke Of Edinburg’s who are apparently […]
  9. Rose Of Allandale
    Jun 14, 2015 · original
    Jon reveals “I first heard this from The Copper family, and it’s probably the song I come back to most when trying to think of a good chorus song to sing.” This one apparently dates from 1836 and the words of Charles Jeffreys set to music by Samuel Nelson. You can link to the sheet […]
  10. Rag Fair
    Jun 13, 2015 · original
    Jon admits “I like the sound of ‘Rag Fair’. It’s a shame this song doesn’t go in to more detail, but I also love the closing image of this.” It’s very much a near relation of New York Girls, but like Jon I’m rather taken with the fact that the errant sailor hasn’t learnt his […]

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