Folklore: Harvest stuff

Subject: RE: Folklore: Harvest stuff
From: Cats
Date: 05 Jul 06 - 12:28 PM

Don't forget to contact Wren Music in Okehampton to get the local harvest songs from the Baring Gould manuscripts.....Then there's always my ceiling with the amazing 16thc neck of corn plasterwork, you could come and take some pics of it.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Harvest stuff
From: IanC
Date: 05 Jul 06 - 03:40 AM

If you're wanting people to join in, "We Plough The Fields And Scatter" and "Come Ye Thankful People Come".

:-)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Harvest stuff
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jul 06 - 03:28 AM

Norfolk singer, the late Walter pardon sang a song he learned at school called 'All Among The Barley'
It's on one of his albums (A Country Life?)
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Folklore: Harvest stuff
From: Tootler
Date: 04 Jul 06 - 04:54 PM

Not forgetting "Speed the Plough" for those who play rather than sing.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Harvest stuff
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 04 Jul 06 - 08:37 AM

The Copper Family's "Two Brethren"

Subject: RE: Folklore: Harvest stuff
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 04 Jul 06 - 08:36 AM

Not specifically harvest, but still agrarian (as We Plough The Fields..),
The Farmer's Boy.
The Lark in The morning

Subject: RE: Folklore: Harvest stuff
From: Mr Fox
Date: 04 Jul 06 - 08:28 AM

Then there's the Albion Band's Harvest Anthem (I believe Cathy LeSurf wrote it). Not sure where you would find the lyrics, though.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Harvest stuff
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 07:31 PM

Trad - So cheerfully round, Bringing in the sheaves, We gets up in the morn

Steve Thomason's Harvest Home

HARVEST HOME

As a student I worked on the harvest in Berkshire. The memory of walking back through the fields as the dor beetles took flight inspired this song.

Chorus - Harvest Home, Harvest Home,
Raise up your glasses, sing Harvest Home
Harvest Home, Harvest Home,
Raise up your glasses, sing Harvest Home

The sun it is setting, the sky's turning gold,
And we weary labourers, both young and both old,
The last of the harvest bring in from the field,
It's another day's work and another year's yield.

I've worked on the harvest in sunshine and rain,
From stripping the wild oats from out of the grain,
To the last weary bale and the last weary sack,
I've carried them homeward on my aching back

As we walk from the fields with the dust in our eyes,
Our throats are like deserts all parched, cracked and dry,
And the swallows fly low as the insects take wing,
So its down to the alehouse to laugh drink and sing.

And in fields of stubble there's rabbit and hare,
That'll make a fine banquet for us all to share
For we've worked on the harvest the long summer through,
And I must raise a tankard to bid you adieu.

And it's down to the alehouse for ale we must go,
Where first barley serves you then lays you down low,
So here's to the barley both servant and king,
Come raise up your glasses, his praise we'll sing.


Best wishes for your project Lucy!

Kitty

Subject: RE: Folklore: Harvest stuff
From: Hawker
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 06:37 PM

excellent start, keep em coming folks, its amazing what you can miss out when you are trying to remember stuff.
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: Folklore: Harvest stuff
From: Mr Fox
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 06:04 PM

Corn Rigs (Rabbie Burns, based on a traditional song)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Harvest stuff
From: greg stephens
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 06:00 PM

John Barleycorn??

Subject: Folklore: Harvest stuff
From: Hawker
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 05:58 PM

Hi, I am planning a performance piece about harvest time, as a community project, I did a similar thing with a Christmas theme last year. Suggestions, as many minds are better than one!
a) songs
b) stories
c) weather and growing/sowing lore
I know I can depend on you all!
Cheers, Lucy