Happy Birthday!

Singer/songwriter Rudyard Kipling

was born

12/30/1865
(d.1/18/1936)

Of his many folkish songs & ballads, many have been set to music - eg Leslie Fish on recordings: Our Fathers Of Old, Random Factors, and largely Peter Belamy put some wonderful tunes to some - five albums worth of them. For example:

          Old Horn to all Atlantic said:
                  A-hay O!  To me O!
          "Now where did Frankie learn his trade?
          For he ran me down with a three-reef mains'le"
                  All round the Horn!
  
                     "Frankie's Trade" by Rudyard Kipling from his story "Simple Simon" in 
                     Rewards and Fairies; Tune: Peter Bellamy

I heard this from Mystic Seaport Chanteymen at the Festival. Was knocked out. So I learned a few Kipling/Bellamy songs.

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