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Thread #72469   Message #2838322
Posted By: Matthew Edwards
13-Feb-10 - 02:05 PM
Thread Name: Meltham, Yorkshire folksong
Subject: RE: Meltham, Yorkshire folksong
Hi Steve,
The 'Songs of the Scarlet & Green' was compiled by Simon Shaw and Ken Green in 2005 and privately printed by subscription for the Colne Valley Beagles hunt. It contains 112 songs and 7 monologues written in a parody of biblical tales by Tom Hellawell in the 1950's. There is a considerable overlap with the repertoire of the Holme Valley, and with the songs of the Cumbrian Fell Packs, but there are also many very local songs; some by fairly well known writers like Ammon Wrigley but also Malcolm Hawkswell, Bob Auty, George Hinchcliffe among others.
The introduction to the book mentions that a CD of the Colne Valley hunting songs is "another pending project at the moment".
I don't think the book is still in print - I found my copy in a Holmfirth bookshop - Abebooks has a copy on sale for £12.00.

Matthew