The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167321   Message #4034802
Posted By: GUEST,John from "Elsie`s Band"
18-Feb-20 - 11:07 AM
Thread Name: Folk songs about floods?
Subject: RE: Folk songs about floods?
One of the songs in our repertoire is "Hartlake Bridge". This tells of the drowning of agricultural workers being washed away when their horse-drawn cart was swept from the bridge at Hadlow in Kent, England by a flooding river Medway. The tombstones of those lost can still be seen in the local churchyard.