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Thread #72469   Message #2838230
Posted By: Matthew Edwards
13-Feb-10 - 12:37 PM
Thread Name: Meltham, Yorkshire folksong
Subject: RE: Meltham, Yorkshire folksong
Did Don, the original poster, ever complete his CD? He said on another thread he had a poem about the 1832 Bill o' Jacks murders at the Moorcock Inn, Greenfield which Bradfordian's verses reminded me about. I can't find any more of Bradfordian's song in the Holme Valley book - please do post it here.

The Colne Valley Beagles hunt have a song in their book 'Songs of the Scarlet & Green' called The White House Hunt writen by Malcolm Hawkswell, which you can hear sung at the White House in Meltham on YouTube (I think the singer is John Cocking). This song is based on an older Meltham hunting song The Keepers and the Drivers which has been in the Holme Valley Hunters' Songs song book since 1923. I think it is safely out of copyright by now so I can add it here.

Matthew