A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)

Subject: A Yorkshire Songster new book available
From: Nick Dow
Date: 22 May 25 - 10:39 AM

Yorkshire has been noted as a ‘singing’ county and this has been reflected in the excellent musical collections published by Frank Kidson. The post war song collections, however, have not been so well represented.

In this new book Steve Gardham has selected over a hundred folk songs, some previously published and others from out-of-print and scarce collections. The main sources are the collections of Mary and Nigel Hudleston, Steve Gardham and Ruairidh Greig.

Musical notation has been provided by Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne and comprehensive notes have been supplied by Steve Gardham and Nick Dow.

A Yorkshire Songster now takes its rightful place alongside the best musical anthologies.

https://francisboutle.co.uk/products/a-yorkshire-songster/

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available
From: The Sandman
Date: 22 May 25 - 01:38 PM

Good luck with the book.

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 22 May 25 - 04:32 PM

Thanks, Dick.

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available
From: r.padgett
Date: 23 May 25 - 02:44 AM

I have put it on fb

Ray

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 23 May 25 - 04:26 PM

And of course Mr Ray Padgett gets several mentions.

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 24 May 25 - 07:45 AM

Aye, lad, but does it cost owt? ;-)

I'll get me coat...

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available
From: r.padgett
Date: 24 May 25 - 07:55 AM

Just search for Yorkshire Songster

Ray

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available
From: Nick Dow
Date: 24 May 25 - 11:13 AM

The books are £15-00 I am waiting for the MP3 files from Cohen and then I will gladly include the tunes for those who do not read music.

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: GUEST,BlackAcornUK
Date: 26 May 25 - 12:36 PM

Looks great, will definitely be placing my order

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: r.padgett
Date: 27 May 25 - 07:41 AM

Nick ~ "include the tunes" where and how please?

Ray

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: Nick Dow
Date: 27 May 25 - 02:15 PM

When you buy the book Email or PM me and I'll send them by WeTransfer. This goes for every book in the Marrowbones series and will cost you nowt. I just want people to access the material easily. I'm still waiting for Cohen to send the MP3's for Yorkshire Songster though.

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: r.padgett
Date: 28 May 25 - 03:32 AM

I have ordered the YS already

Ray

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: Nick Dow
Date: 28 May 25 - 10:04 AM

I'll get onto it Ray.

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 28 May 25 - 05:26 PM

A listing of song titles ... may prompt, or prime the pump.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

I just donated 5 foot self space of old, classic fishing books to an institution ... to make room more music.

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: Nick Dow
Date: 29 May 25 - 08:54 AM

It will be about 3 weeks. Cohen is away.

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: r.padgett
Date: 29 May 25 - 09:05 AM

Not in a rush Nick

Ray

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 29 May 25 - 01:30 PM

Contents
   5   
   7   
Preface by Dave Burland
Introduction by Nick Dow
SONGS
12   An Acre of Land
13   The Artillery Alphabet
14   As Tommy Was Walking (Tommy and the Apples)
15   The Barley Corn (The Barley Mow)
16   The Barnburgh Tup (The Derby Ram)
18   The Battle of Trafalgar (Nelson’s Monument)
19   The Bilsdale Hunt Song
21   Bold Rennie (Three Jolly Huntsmen)
22   The Bonny Hawthorn
23   The Bonny Yorkshire Lass (My Pretty Yorkshire Lass)
25   Buttercups (Down in the fields where the buttercups all grow )
26   Castle Hill Anthem (Pleasant and Delightful)
27   The Cat, the Mouse and the Cask of Ale
29   The Christmas Goose
31   The Cliffs of Old Whitby
32   Collier Lads (The Soldier Laddie)
33   The Country Carrier
34   The Country Gawby
36   A country life for me
38   The Cropper Lads
39   The Cropton Murders
40   The Death of Bill Brown
42   Despised for Being Poor
43   Dick Turpin’s Ride to York
45   Died for Love
46   The Duke of Buckingham’s Hunting Song (The Noble Foxhunting)
48   The Farmer of Cheshire’s Daughter
50   The Farmyard Song
51   Father’s Advice
53   A fine old lady was my grandma (My grandma’s advice)
54   Forty Miles
55   Foster’s Mill
56   Fylingdales Hunt Song
58   The Gallant Hussar
60   Gather all round
61   Gode rest ye merry, gentlemen
62   Gossip John (Gossip Joan)
63   The Grey Goose and Gander (The Goose and the Gander)
64   Hear the nightingales sing (The Bold Grenadier)
65   Hedon Road Gaol
66   Here we come a-wassailing
67   The Herring’s Head (The Herring Song)
69   The Holmfirth Anthem (Through the Groves)
70   I wish I was single again
71   I’ve fun a bod’s nest
72   The Indian Lass
74   Jolly Country Lads Are We (Old Joe Braddleum)
75   The Jolly Ploughboy
77   The Jolly Waggoner
78   The Keys of Heaven
79   King Henry was King James’ son (The White Cockade)
80   The Lady of Robin Hood’s Bay (Mary Wright)
82   The Lily-White Hand
84   The Little Ball of Yarn (The Ball of Yarn)
85   Lord Bateman
88   The Lyke Wake Dirge
90   MacGregor John and John MacGregor (Bohunkus and Josephus)
91   Marrow Bones
93   Master Smith says to John
95   The Maypole Song
97   Merry Mountain Child
99   A Milking Can (Mother, will you buy me a milking can?)
100   Mutton Pie
102   My Beautiful Muff (The Beautiful Muff)
104   My father died (The Foolish Boy)
105   My Little Fiddle (My thing is my own)
107   No, my love, not I
108   The Nobleman’s Lady (The Alderman’s Lady)
109   The Oak and the Ash (Rosemary Lane)
111   Old Adam Was a Gentleman
113   Old Grimy
115   Old Johnny Walker
116   The Old Man from Lea
117   The Old Mare
119   Old Matha Gummersal
120   The Old Sow (The Dead Pig)
121   Pace-Egging Song
122   The Pear Tree
124   Poor Old Horse
125   Poverty Knocks
127   Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth (Nancy of Yarmouth)
128   The Pride of the Pack
130   Rumpsy-Bumpsy-Ay (Rumpsy Bumpsy)
132   The Sandstone Girl
134   The Saucy Sailor
135   The Sheffield Apprentice
137   Sheffield Park
138   The Sheffield Ship Canal
139   Six Jolly Miners
140   The Soldier and the Sailor
141   Spence Broughton
143   Spencer the Rover
144   Staithes Anthem (The Fisherman and his Child)
146   Still I love him
147   Stow Brow (The Drowned Sailor)
148   The Summer’s Morning (The White Cockade)
149   The Tailor’s Britches
151   Take care of your wives (Preaching for Bacon)
153   There was a maiden fair
154   Three Jolly Fishermen
155   Three men they went a-yunting (Three men went a-hunting)
156   Three-score-and-ten
158   Timothy Briggs the Barber (The Parson with the Wooden Leg)
160   The Two Crows
161   Undaunted Mary (The Banks of the Sweet Dundee)
163   Underneath Her Apron (Three Maids a-Rushing)
165   Up to me Rigs (The Rigs of London Town)
166   Wanton Lasses
168   The Wensleydale Lad
170   What is that blood on thy shirt sleeve? (Edward)
172   Where there’s a will there’s a way
174   The Wild Rover
176   Willy Went to Westerdale
178   The Wreck of the Industry (Industry off SpurnPoint)
180   The Yorkshire Wassailing Song

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: The Sandman
Date: 29 May 25 - 02:38 PM

180 songs, well done

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 29 May 25 - 03:42 PM

Dick, those are page numbers. That's the Contents list. There are 115 songs. It's just a small selection from 1,000s, but many of the others are still available in print or are in collections not so accessible to us. Thanks anyway.

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 29 May 25 - 04:04 PM

(*ahem*) Page numbers, Sandman, ol' bean. I make that 115 songs, though I may have miscounted. But "Well done" is no less appropriate.

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: r.padgett
Date: 30 May 25 - 04:12 AM

Yes a good back up of Yorkshire songs in print and permanent addition to what is there already

Ray

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 30 May 25 - 02:28 PM

Just to be clear, the bulk of the songs come from the Hudleston Collection and were previously published in 2001 no longer available. The book contained a number of flaws in its transcriptions and we have gone back to original recordings to transcribe the selected songs. 18 of the songs come from the repertoire of the great Arthur Woods of Littlebeck and some of these were released on a double CD by Mustrad from recordings made by Colin Wharton in 1962. Although a lot of the songs come from the Esk valley we have balanced this where possible with songs from other parts of Yorkshire, notably from Ruairidh Greig's recordings around Sheffield in the early 70s and my own East Riding recordings made in the 60s and 70s. Some of the songs came from the Yorkshire Garland website, naturally.

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 30 May 25 - 05:20 PM

Woods should be Wood.

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 02 Jun 25 - 06:47 AM

Great - I love all these books that Francis Boutle are publishing and will definitely purchase this one. Is there a particular folk enthusiast in their editorial department there - it's really gratifying that Boutle are so supportive of English traditional music?

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 02 Jun 25 - 02:15 PM

Clive Boutle is himself a folk performer. He performs with the London Lasses dance team, and some of their other books have folk connections. The firm is based in London. I have met up with Clive at Whitby FF on several occasions in recent years. We are scheduled a couple of launch events at this year's Whitby Festival.

Thanks for your support, Matt!

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 03 Jun 25 - 07:25 PM

I like the titles:
Just tried to order with CC- four attempts - No Go!

Alphabet fits my collection.

Well Done putting this together.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

I have euro cash. I am getting books from India - I doubt tariff is involved.

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: Nick Dow
Date: 08 Jun 25 - 04:27 PM

I now have the tunes available for anybody who wants them. PM me for an address.

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Jun 25 - 11:45 PM

I ordered mine May 23, but haven't recieved it yet. I won't get anxious until the first of July.
Garg, I have ordered every one of this series of books from Francis Boutle, and I've never had a problem with my Visa Credit card. I pay the bill in pounds and let my credit card company make the conversion. If you email Boutle, they'll get right back to you. They're very nice. I've had some pleasant correspondence with Clive over the years.

Nick, if you see this, I'd like a copy of the melodies.
[e-mail]

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: r.padgett
Date: 09 Jun 25 - 03:09 AM

Received the tunes by email this morning and down loaded to pc like Joe I haven't got the YS yet

I have, I think most of the other new books ( I have the originals ~ most too )

Ray

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Jun 25 - 04:15 AM

Is there a name for this series of books? They all match so nicely on my bookshelf. As long as these books keep coming out, I'll keep buying them. They're all wonderful.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: Nick Dow
Date: 09 Jun 25 - 01:35 PM

Yes this is the 'Marrowbones. series. Clive is hopefully adding the original 'Marrowbones book to the collection in the foreseeable future.

Subject: RE: A Yorkshire Songster new book available (Gardham)
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 09 Jun 25 - 02:40 PM

Still awaiting a correction from Cohen to one of the scores, otherwise Clive was going to press today.

I have done at least half a dozen proof readings but none of us are perfect so if anyone spots a glaring error please let me or Clive know and we can correct it in a subsequent rerun.

Just for the record, the original Marrow Bones was a shambles, even though many of us bought it and learnt songs from it. Frank sent EFDSS the first proof and impatient Peter Kennedy went to press without consulting Frank, so not his fault. Malcolm and I spent 2 weeks in Cecil Sharp House archives before they were all on the internet and went through everything with a fine-tooth comb before publishing the second edition, and just the fact that MD was on the case would be enough for most people.