The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #29983 Message #4035560
Posted By: Daniel Kelly
22-Feb-20 - 07:46 PM
Thread Name: Tolpuddle Martyrs, any songs?
Subject: RE: Tolpuddle Martyrs, any songs?
Wow, this is outrageous.
Those lyrics posted for 'Albion's Shore' are directly lifted from a convict poem by James Porter (written in 1844).
I just finished my own setting after reading Porter's autobiography.
Links to the original source in the video description.
Don Brian also did a setting of this song on his album of convict songs, 'The Convict Voice'.