Lyr Req: Wat Tyler and Jack Straw please

Subject: Lyr Req: Wat Tyler and Jack Straw please
From: GUEST,kampervan
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 10:02 AM

Hi there
Hs anyone got the lyrics to Wat Tyler and Jack Straw; a potted version describing the last day of the revolting pheasants.

As sung by Silver Birch in their early (1970's?) days in Grimsby.

Cheers
Kampervan

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wat Tyler and Jack Straw please
From: Susan of DT
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 01:57 PM

Sidney Carter's John Ball is also about the Peasant's Revolt of 1381. Unfortunately, we had to remove the lyrics from the DT.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wat Tyler and Jack Straw please
From: Kampervan
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 05:02 PM

Why did they have to be removed? How very intriguing!

K/van

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wat Tyler and Jack Straw please
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 05:28 PM

Heard of copyright?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wat Tyler and Jack Straw please
From: Susan of DT
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 07:55 PM

Look up John Ball and you'll see the note. Sydney Carter's publisher is one of very few to ask that material to which they hold copyright be removed from the DT. The song is not a detailed history of the Peasant's Revolt that you seem to be requesting. And I don't remember a Jack Straw being involved in the Revolt - you may have been thinking of John Ball. The jingle of the time was "When Adam delved and Eva span, who was then the gentleman"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wat Tyler and Jack Straw please
From: GUEST,kampervan
Date: 15 Apr 07 - 05:03 AM

Hi there Susan of DT
Thanks for the info. Jack Straw was definitely there along with Tyler and Ball. He ws executed along with John Ball and is head was stuck on London Bridge.
Anyway I'll carry on looking.
Cheers
K/van

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wat Tyler and Jack Straw please
From: GUEST,Puck
Date: 15 Apr 07 - 11:00 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wat Tyler and Jack Straw please
From: GUEST,puck
Date: 15 Apr 07 - 11:07 PM

OOoops I thought the name 'Jack Straw' was a collective name for all the common folk who took up the revolt.

P