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Thread #140116 Message #3370659
Posted By: Phil Edwards
02-Jul-12 - 07:42 AM
Thread Name: Fifty-Two Folk Songs
Subject: RE: Fifty-Two Folk Songs
Week 43 brings more nautical songs; there's an original composition by Peter Bellamy and another of his settings of Kipling. As well as Bellamy and Kipling, this week I'm in the footsteps of Bert Lloyd, Cyril Tawney and Mudcat's own Gibb Sahib.
Come down you bunch of roses is the shanty which is now much better known as "Blood red roses"; credit for this goes, apparently, to Bert Lloyd. Thanks to Gibb Sahib for some excellent archaeology and arrangement on this one.
My version is sung in two-part harmony, accompanied by domestic percussion.
Anchor song is a two-minute blast of sailor-speak from Kipling, set to music by Bellamy. Not easy to follow if you don't know the lingo – and not at all easy to learn – but fun.
Roll down is one of Bellamy's chameleon-like impressions of traditional song from the Transports, this one in the form of a shanty (led by Tawney on the 1977 recording). Voices only, but lots of 'em.
52 Folk Songs is at http://www.52folksongs.com.