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Posted By: FreddyHeadey
16-Jan-20 - 04:54 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Songs, poems etc about ploughmen/boys
Subject: RE: Folklore: Songs, poems etc about ploughmen/boys
1973 BBC video (8 minutes) of the Goathland Plough Stots
https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/goathland-plough-stot-ceremony/zm4wcqt
& their web page(a bit out of date, lots more on Google search) with a song
When Goathland Plough Stots are dancing it is tradition that a song is sung before they start however it has to be said in most cases now it tends to be shouted rather than sang:
" We're Gooadlan Pleeaf Stots com'd ageaan
All decked wi' ribbons fair
Seea noo we'll do the best we can
An' the best can deea neea mair"
The longer version of this song as sung by Keith Thompson at The Royal Albert Hall is also sung on Very Special Occasions:
" Here's a host of us all
From Goathland go we
We're goin a rambling
The country for to see
The country for to see
Some passtime for to take
So freely you will give to us
As freely we will take
So now you see us all
Dressed in our fine array
Think of us what you will
Music strike up and play"
https://www.goathlandploughstots.co.uk/