BANKS OF CLAUDY

Twas on one summer's evening all in the month of May
Down by a flow'ry garden where Betsy did stray.
I overheard a damsel in sorrow to complain,
All for her absent lover that ploughs the raging main.

Claudy Banks has the distinction of being the first song ever collected for the English Folk Song Society, when Mrs. Kate Lee wrote it down during a visit to James 'Brasser' Copper and his brother Tom in 1897. Finest Kind

Copper Family

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Claudy Banks · Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X-mbMZnt8g
Loreena McKennitt Banks Of Claudy     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8VnerKx_lI
The Young Tradition -The Banks of the Claudy     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KebRDMa7lyc
Banks of Claudy (Martyn Wyndham-Read & Iris Bishop)     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO_xmAUU3Sw

Mainly Norfolk info:  https://mainlynorfolk.info/copperfamily/songs/claudybanks.html
MUDCAT Lyr Add: Claudy Banks/Where are the Claudy Banks?     /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=1204