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Thread #58140 Message #919870
Posted By: mouldy
27-Mar-03 - 01:42 PM
Thread Name: What songs are native to Derbyshire?
Subject: RE: What songs are native to Derbyshire?
There is a very poignant song called "Tip O' Derwent", by Gerald Short, which tells how a sheepdog bitch kept vigil by her dead shepherd master for many weeks after he died in the snow, until his body was found in the thaw. I have it on an old (1981) album by "Ram's Bottom" called "The Young May Moon" (Traditional Sound Recordings TSR 038). The line-up of the band are: Keith Kendrick, Barry Coupe, Ron Cossor, Trevor Hopkins, Ian Carter and Rick Scollins. If ever an album needed reissuing, this is it! The song that ends the album - "Charlie Sparrer's Marrer" - is a delight! The songs from Derbyshire which are on the album aren't the old traditional ones, but they are good, none the less.
Andrea (Long Eaton born, via Nightingale Maternity Hospital, Derby)