Lyr Req: Ballad of Gipsy Moth IV - Pennine Folk

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ballad of Gipsy Moth IV - Pennine Folk
From: GUEST,ChrisJBrady
Date: 17 Jan 24 - 11:18 PM

Seems like the massive purge by Google has caused these uploads to be wiped.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ballad of Gipsy Moth IV - Pennine Folk
From: GUEST,Chris Brady
Date: 17 Jan 24 - 10:37 PM

All uploads have been removed from YouTube. Seems like there has been a purge on YT of a significant number of uploads of folk music and song. What’s going on?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ballad of Gipsy Moth IV - Pennine Folk
From: GUEST,CJB
Date: 09 Oct 16 - 01:44 PM

Thank you. This search is not over yet - it was a rollicking good song much like the more un-p.c. Seal Hunt!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ballad of Gipsy Moth IV - Pennine Folk
From: cnd
Date: 08 Oct 16 - 09:30 AM

Sorry, can't find anything to help other than your post from 2014, which adds that it was written by Ken Campbell

Subject: Lyr Req: Ballad of Gipsy Moth IV - Pennine Folk
From: GUEST,CJB
Date: 08 Oct 16 - 05:22 AM

The Pennine Folk appeared on numerous Beeb folk programmes such as Country Meets Folk, Folk on Friday, etc.

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?q=pennine+folk#search

On one of these they sang the Ballad of Gypsey Moth IV about Sir Francis Chichester's circumnavigation of the world.

The chorus went:

Hey ho, roll an go,
In the months of rain and snow,
How many times can a man defy,
The raging seas and the rolling sky?

As a tall ship sailor who has survived many storms - mainly in or around the North Sea (Christian Radich), Bay of Biscay (Christian Radich), St. Kilda (Sir Winston Churchill), and the English Channel (HM Bark Endeavour)!! - I can well imagine this scenario.