Subject: Butcher Boy - Irish song From: Linda Cee Date: 29 Sep 97 - 05:44 PM Heard from Joe Offer that Alice of Montana had previously provided info about this lovely folk song. I am most interested in knowing its origin; I heard it in Newfoundland in the '70's but I don't know if is Newfoundland or Irish. |
Subject: RE: Butcher Boy - Irish song From: Shula Date: 29 Sep 97 - 05:47 PM Dear Linda, Look in the thread with the title, "Woman's Song Circle," and click on the first entry under the name, Alice. Hope this helps. Shula Thread #2801 Message #13356 Posted By: Alice 27-Sep-97 - 09:01 PM Thread Name: Women's Song Circle Subject: Lyr Add: THE BUTCHER BOY
I thought this would be in the DT, but I just looked under courting and suicide as well as other searches and didn't find it. Here you are: |
Subject: RE: Butcher Boy - Irish song From: Shula Date: 29 Sep 97 - 05:57 PM Dear Linda Cee, Think I see your problem. Check same thread, entry by "Alice" on Sept. 27, 9:01 P.M. It is her most recent entry to date.
Shula |
Subject: RE: Butcher Boy - Irish song From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Sep 97 - 07:07 PM Shula - I got the lyrics to Linda by e-mail since they had already been posted. She's looking for history and background of the song, I think. I haven't been able to find that, but I did find a long list of recordings of "Butcher Boy." Linda, check at this URL: http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/folkindex/ I don't know which of these recordings are still available, but I do know that you can still get any album ever issued on the Folkways label from Smithsonian Folkways - and now you can get it in CD format for twenty bucks a crack. -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Butcher Boy - Irish song From: Frank Phillips Date: 30 Sep 97 - 12:22 AM The Clancy Brother's Irish songbook says it is "a variant of the widely known Gosport Tragedy." There is a reference to the Gosport Tragedy in the DT entry for Ship's Carpenter which says it was a garland(?) published in London ca. 1750. One of the many printings of Soodlums Irish ballads claims it is "a simple ballad of English origin". I don't have a detailed enough map of the British Isles to locate Gosport. Frank |
Subject: RE: Butcher Boy - Irish song From: Alice Date: 30 Sep 97 - 01:42 AM Linda, I made several posts on the Women's Song Circle referring to The Butcher Boy, starting on Sept.27, and including one I just posted tonight. Alice in Montana |
Subject: RE: Butcher Boy - Irish song From: Ralph BUtts Date: 30 Sep 97 - 07:48 AM Frank....Gosport is on the English Channel, just east of Southampton, directly opposite the Isle of Wight....Tiger |
Subject: RE: Butcher Boy - Irish song From: Martin Ryan Date: 30 Sep 97 - 09:00 AM Frank "garland" in this context is a set of ballad sheets published together. (There - that's set it up nicely for someone to give a more exact answer!) regards |
Subject: RE: Butcher Boy - Irish song From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 30 Sep 97 - 07:17 PM A close relation is The Railroad Boy, which I am listening to as I type this. Joan Baez, Ballad Book Vol. 2. |
Subject: Butcher('s) Boy From: krsassan@unity.ncsu.edu Date: 03 Sep 99 - 12:12 PM I am looking for the lyrics of the Butcher('s) Boy. It is folk song done in the 50s or 60s. I'm not sure who sings it, although I did get partial lyrics for what may be it by Ben Rice. I'm not sure if it is played in the movie with the same title or not. They do play a song in the beginning (the mother plays it on the record player), which may be it. Any info would be greatly appreciated. A midi or wav file would be awesome. Thanks. |
Subject: RE: Butcher('s) Boy From: Wolfgang Date: 03 Sep 99 - 12:15 PM this perhaps? Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: Butcher('s) Boy From: Wolfgang Date: 03 Sep 99 - 12:19 PM Joe , you're still the champ. This three minute barrier will stand until I happen to have on the other window exactly what someone is asking for, a most unlikely occurence. Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: Butcher('s) Boy From: Wolfgang Date: 03 Sep 99 - 12:31 PM Well, I see now, I could have sent you someplace nearer, to the digitrad database: BUTCHER'S BOY. This great folksong collection has also the tune of this song. Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: Butcher('s) Boy From: John Hindsill Date: 03 Sep 99 - 12:54 PM Americanized versions of this song:
"Wild Goose Grasses" - The Weavers, on various of their records and re-releases.
Neither of these songs are as long and rich as the version linked above, but fun. The Kingston Trio used the basic tune for "When I Was Young," a sappy, not so tragic story. Also, Tommy Makem has a wonderful version of "The Butcher Boy" on his album, 'The Bard of Armagh.'---John |
Subject: RE: Butcher('s) Boy From: Origin? Date: 03 Sep 99 - 06:30 PM Does anyone know the song's origin, country of origin, or anything else about it. Is it public domain? I searched the Library of Congress and it seems to be attributed to Ben Rice. |
Subject: RE: Butcher('s) Boy From: krsassano@unity.ncsu.edu Date: 03 Sep 99 - 06:33 PM I wanted the info on the Buthcher's Boy origin. |
Subject: RE: Butcher('s) Boy From: Hutzul Date: 03 Sep 99 - 07:48 PM There was a rendition on an Irish Rovers album sung to the tune I know as Butchers Boy. But it's called "My Boy Willie" Tells the tale of a young man who goes to sea wearing a special coat. After a time, his girlfriend goes to look for him Oh Father Dear, build me a boat "That on the ocean, I might float" She asks after him on every ship she passes, and is finally told a guy with that coat drown (of course) This was a "party piece" for one of the Ir. Rovers, meaning at a family gathering, no one else would have the poor manners to sing it before your turn. Anyone want all the lyrics? I have them somewhere |
Subject: RE: Butcher('s) Boy From: Joe Offer Date: 04 Sep 99 - 03:33 AM Here's what I found in Folk Songs of Old New England (Eloise Hubbard Linscott, 1939): the song is widely current in many forms in the United States and Britain. It is said to have originated in Essex County, England. In its earlier form, it goes back to the seventeenth century, when the heartaches of milkmen and similar humble characters enjoyed more than a passing vogue. The original hero was probably a sailor instead of a butcher boy.Other sources I checked said more-or-less the same thing, and noted that there are many variations and settings and titles for the song. Click for a previous thread on this song. You'll also find some interesting information by searching the Traditional Ballad Index (click) for Butcher Boy. -Joe Offer- Butcher Boy, The [Laws P24]DESCRIPTION: The butcher boy has "courted [the girl's] life away," but now has left her (for a richer girl?). She writes a letter expressing her grief, then hangs herself. Her father finds her body and the note asking that her grave show that she died for loveAUTHOR: unknown EARLIEST DATE: before 1865 (broadside, Bodleian Harding B 18(72)) KEYWORDS: seduction suicide pregnancy betrayal abandonment FOUND IN: Britain(England(South)) US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,Ro,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf) Australia REFERENCES (42 citations): Laws P24, "The Butcher Boy" Belden, pp. 201-207, "The Butcher Boy" (3 texts plus excerpts from 2 more and references to 3 more, 3 tunes); see also pp. 478-480, "The Blue-Eyed Boy" (4 texts, though "D" is a fragment, probably of "Tavern in the Town" or "The Butcher Boy" or some such) Randolph 45, "The Butcher Boy" (4 texts plus 4 excerpts, 2 tunes) Eddy 41, "The Butcher Boy" (2 texts, 2 tunes) Gardner/Chickering 37, "The Butcher Boy" (1 text plus 2 excerpts and mention of 4 more, 2 tunes); also 25, "The Sailor Boy" (1 short text; the first 6 lines are "The Sailor Boy" [Laws K12]; the last twelve are perhaps "The Butcher Boy") Peters, p. 204, "The Butcher Boy" (1 text, 1 tune) Stout 26, pp. 37-41, "The Butcher Boy" (4 texts pus 5 fragments) Neely, pp. 145-149, "The Butcher Boy" (4 texts, 1 tune) Flanders/Brown, pp. 115-116, "The Butcher Boy" (1 text, 1 tune) Linscott, pp. 179-181, "The Butcher Boy" (1 text, 1 tune) Leach, pp. 737-738, "The Butcher Boy" (1 text) BrownII 81, "The Butcher Boy" (6 texts plus 5 excerpts and mention of 3 others) BrownSchinhanIV 81, "The Butcher Boy" (3 excerpts, 3 tunes) BrownIII 254, "Little Sparrow" (4 texts plus 1 excerpt and 1 fragment; the "F" text, however, is primarily "The Butcher Boy" or an "I Wish I Wish" piece of some sort) Scarborough-SongCatcher, pp. 282-288, "The Butcher Boy" (8 texts, with local titles "The Butcher Boy" (a single stanza), "Butcher Boy," "The Butcher Boy," "Jersey City," (E has no title and is a single-sentence fragment about Polly Perkins), "In Johnson City" (this short might be "Tavern in the Town" or similar), "Butcher's Boy," "The Girl Who Died For Love" (this version too might be a simple "Died for Love" piece); 3 tunes on pp. 431-433) MHenry-Appalachians, pp. 173-174, "I Am A Rambling Rowdy Boy" (1 text, which opens with a stanza from some sort of rambling man song but then becomes a standard, if short, "Butcher Boy" version) Brewster 34, "The Butcher's Boy" (3 texts plus mention of 6 more) SharpAp 101, "The Brisk Young Lover" (4 texts, 4 tunes) Friedman, p. 110, "The Butcher Boy" (1 text) Hudson 45, pp. 160-161, "The Butcher's Boy" (1 text plus mention of 11 more) Boswell/Wolfe 21, pp. 40-42, "The Butcher Boy" (1 text, 1 tune) Warner 86, "A Rude and Rambling Boy" (1 text, 1 tune) Shellans, p. 28, "The Farmer's Boy" (1 text, 1 tune) Meredith/Anderson, pp. 267-268, "The Maiden's Prayer" (1 text, 1 tune, with an unusual introduction in which the false lover is a soldier) Sandburg, p. 324, "Go Bring Me Back My Blue-Eyed Boy" and "London City" (2 texts, 1 tune) Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 230-231, "In Sheffield Park" (1 text, 1 tune) Wiltshire-WSRO Wt 339, "In Sheffield Park" (1 text) Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 28 "The Butcher's Boy" (1 text, 1 tune) Kennedy 160, "In Sheffield Park" (1 text plus a second in the notes, 1 tune) Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 60-62, "Snow Dove" (1 text, 1 tune) Spaeth-WeepMore, pp. 128-129, "In Jersey City" (1 text, 1 tune) JHJohnson, p. 77, "The Butcher Boy" (1 text) LPound-ABS, 24, pp.60-62, "The Butcher's Boy" (1 text; the "B" text is "Tavern in the Town") JHCox 145, "The Butcher Boy" (2 texts plus mention of 1 more, 1 tune) MacSeegTrav 73, "The Butcher Boy" (1 text, 1 tune) Peacock, pp. 707-708, "The Butcher Boy" (1 text, 1 tune) Creighton-NovaScotia 16, "Butcher Boy" (1 text, 1 tune) Mackenzie 59, "The Butcher Boy" (2 texts, 1 tune) Darling-NAS, pp. 139-140, "The Butcher Boy" (1 text); also pp. 141-142, "Morning Fair" (a complex text, with all sorts of floating elements, but with the final stanzas of this song) Silber-FSWB, p. 178, "The Butcher's Boy" (1 text) DT 320, BUTCHBOY* ADDITIONAL: Fred W. Allsopp, Folklore of Romantic Arkansas, Volume II (1931), p. 207, "(The Butcher's Boy)" (1 fragment) Roud #409 RECORDINGS: Blue Sky Boys, "The Butcher's Boy" (Montgomery Ward 8668, c. 1937) Vernon Dalhart, "The Butcher's Boy" (Perfect 12330, 1927) Kelly Harrell, "Butcher's Boy" (Victor 19563, 1925; on KHarrell01) (Victor 20242, 1926; on KHarrell01) Buell Kazee, "The Butcher's Boy" (Brunswick 213A, 1928; Brunswick 437, 1930; on AAFM1, KMM); "Butcher Boy" (on Kazee01) Jean Ritchie & Doc Watson, "Go Dig My Grave (Railroad Boy)" (on RitchieWatson1, RitchieWatsonCD1) Henry Whitter, "The Butcher Boy" (OKeh 40375, 1925) Ephraim Woodie & the Henpecked Husbands, "The Fatal Courtship" [uses tune of "Banks of the Ohio"] (Columbia 15564-D, 1930; rec. 1929; on LostProv1) BROADSIDES: Bodleian, Harding B 18(72), "The Butcher Boy" ("In Jersey city where I did dwell"), H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864; also Harding B 18(71), "The Butcher Boy" CROSS-REFERENCES: cf. "My Blue-Eyed Boy" (lyrics, theme) cf. "Must I Go Bound" (lyrics, theme) cf. "The Sailor Boy (I)" [Laws K12] (lyrics) cf. "Died for Love (I)" cf. "Tavern in the Town" cf. "Love Has Brought Me to Despair" [Laws P25] (lyrics) cf. "Waly Waly (The Water is Wide)" cf. "Careless Love" (floating lyrics) cf. "Ye Mariners All" (tune) cf. "Dink's Song" (floating lyrics) cf. "Every Night When the Sun Goes In" (lyrics, plot) cf. "Farewell, Sweetheart (The Parting Lovers, The Slighted Sweetheart)" (lyrics) cf. "Beam of Oak" (theme) ALTERNATE TITLES: Jersey City The Wild Goose Grasses NOTES: Most scholars hold that this song is a combination of two others (Randolph follows Cox in claiming *four*). The primary evidence is the shift in narrative style: The first part of the ballad is in first person, the rest (affiliated with "There is an Alehouse in Yonder Town/Tavern in the Town") is in the third person. Leach, on the other hand, considers it to be a single song of American origin. Given the extreme variations in the form of this ballad (e.g. a significant number of versions omit the fact that the butcher boy left to marry a richer girl; some of the most poignant imply that the butcher boy rather than the father found her body) and the amount of floating material it contains, any theories of dependence must be examined carefully. The two songs, "My Blue-Eyed Boy" and "Must I Go Bound," are clearly related (probably decayed offshoots of this song), now so damaged as to force separate listing. But there are, as so often, intermediate versions; one should check the references for those songs. "Died for Love (I)" is perhaps a worn-down fragment of this piece, consisting of the lament without the suicide. Similarly the Brown collection's piece "My Little Dear, So Fare You Well." MacColl and Seeger have classified related texts under fully seven heads: * "Deep in Love," corresponding roughly to "Must I Go Bound" in the Ballad Index. Generally lyric. * The Butcher Boy. Characterized by the story of betrayal and eventual suicide (informal translation: If the girl kills herself, file the song here no matter *what* the rest of it looks like. If she dies but doesn't kill herself, it's something else, perhaps "Died for Love (I)"). If there is a core to this family, this is it. * Love Has Brought Me To Despair. (Laws P25). This shares lyrics with this family, notably those concerning the girl's burial, but has a slighly distinct plot. * Waly Waly/The Water Is Wide. Related primarily by theme, it seems to me. * The Tavern in the Town. Shares lyrics, but a distinct song (or at least recension) by our standards. * Careless Love. Clearly distinct. * Died for Love (I). This shares the stanzas of lamentation with "The Butcher Boy," but is distinct in that the girl is certainly pregnant (the girl in "The Butcher Boy" may be, but not all versions show this), she laments her folly, but she does *not* kill herself. It's much more lyric than "The Butcher Boy." - RBW Broadside Bodleian Harding B 18(72): H. De Marsan dating per Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS Last updated in version 3.2 File: LP24 Go to the Ballad Search form Go to the Ballad Index Instructions The Ballad Index Copyright 2014 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle. |
Subject: words of butcher boy From: Date: 02 Dec 99 - 05:48 AM I'm looking for the words to Buthcer Boy and, before someone tells me to check forum the Buthcer Boy in that version is to the tune used for Penny Evans, mine goes something like. "A Butcher Boy, I loved right well.......he courted me my life away. and now with me he will not stay So make my grave large wide and deep, lay a marble stone at my head and feet.........The world will know I died for love |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BUTCHER BOY From: George@george.prestel.co.uk Date: 02 Dec 99 - 06:22 AM In Moore Street where I did dwell, A butcher boy I loved right well. He courted me my life away, And now with me he will not stay.
I wish my baby he were born
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain.
He went upstairs and the door he broke.
"O Dig my grave large wide and deep. |
Subject: RE: words of butcher boy From: InOBU Date: 02 Dec 99 - 09:42 AM There is a song, in someway related, false love and hanging, in which the wronged female gets a great old revenge, I sing it when someone sings the Butcher Boy, after she hangs herself, the wee lassie comes back and haunts the fellow, finally dragging him down to hell, it is called the dreadful ghost, and it is on an album calle d Dark Ships in the Forrest, by John Roberts and Tony Barrand... |
Subject: RE: words of butcher boy From: Date: 02 Dec 99 - 02:20 PM Laws P24, in DT. See The Traditional Ballad Index in Mudcat's links for amny other versions. |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BUTCHER BOY From: GUEST,ginnee Date: 23 Aug 04 - 09:42 PM My mother gave me the song, the Butcher Boy many years ago. My uncle had traced it back to the late 1600's England. This is the version I have. In London City, where I did dwell, A butcher boy I loved so well He courted me my life away and then with me, he would not stay There's a house in that same town Where he goes in and he sits down He takes his maiden upon his knee And he tells her things that he once told me O papa can you tell me why Is it cause she has more gold than I Her gold will melt and her silver will fly and in time of need she'll be poor as I Must I go down and him go free Or love a boy that don't love me Or must I play a childish part and love a boy that breaks my heart I went upstairs to make my bed But nothing to my mother said My mother came upstairs to me Saying what is the matter daughter dear Oh mother mother you do not know Its grief to me and sorrow, woe Go get a chair to sit upon A pen and ink to write it down With every line she dropped a tear While calling home her Willie dear O Willie I beg you to come home Don't leave me here, I'm all alone That afternoon when her father came home He wondered where his daughter had gone He rushed upstairs and the door he broke And he found her hanging from a rope He took his knife and he cut her down And in her note these words he found Oh what a foolish maid am I To kill myself for a butcher boy So dig my grave both wide and deep Place a marble stone at my head and feet And on my breast place a snow white dove To prove to the world, I died for love |
Subject: RE: lyrics and music - Butcher Boy & others From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 24 Aug 04 - 12:12 PM See the extended review of this group of songs in the post by Malcolm Douglas, thread 18360, 09 Jul 00, 8:52 pm. The many links give a good picture of the relationships. There are many floating verses. The Butcher Boy first appeared in print in an American broadside, ca. 1860, and seems to be an American relation of this large group of songs. Thread 18360 (Penguin I Wish, I Wish): Penguin Also see the revision of The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs by Malcolm, "Classic English Folk Songs," 2003, pub. English Folk Dance & Song Society, notes pp. 93-94. |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BUTCHER'S BOY (from Freda Reynolds) From: GUEST,Ron W. Date: 24 Nov 05 - 04:10 AM My mother, although unknown, had one of the most beautiful 'A' tenor voices I've heard. Unfortunately, my father would not allow her to pursue a musical career. I was fortunate enough to learn from her some of what she learned from her grandfather. One song I learned was what I know as, 'The Butcher Boy'. She learned by ear and amateur instruction from her family and friends in a hollow called 'Kate's Run' (I believe) somewhere in W. Virginia. I must have heard her version of the song at least a thousand times, of which five hundred were by my request. She has passed away now, but I can still hear her beautiful voice wrapped around this melody and trembling with the pain she must have felt from empathy she had for the subject. The original words long lost and forgotten she did the best she could with the storyline she learned from William Whackart her grandfather. I loved the song so much I revised it to a masculine point of view so I could sing it every chance I got to those who appreciate vintage music. Searching for the original words brought me here. I am pleased that I have found what I was looking for and yet somewhat set back by the diversity of the lines compared to what I learned (and modified). And so I would like to offer my version. It's not very different from what I was taught as a child I'm now 42 and still sing this version every chance I get, although, I can not achieve what I so love to recall of My mothers melodic presence. I wish to thank any and everyone who made this possible. Thank you and God Bless. THE BUTCHER'S BOY, as sung by Freda Reynolds, revised ---------------- In London town, where I used to dwell, Lived a butcher's boy and a lovely girl. He courted her young life away But with this girl he would not stay. One day when her father came home, He wondered where his daughter had gone. He rushed upstairs and her door he broke And found his daughter, hanging from a rope. He took his knife and he cut her down And in a note, these words he found: "Oh what a silly maid am I, you know, To kill my self for a butcher's boy. "There is a house in this same town Where he walks right in and sits right down. He takes another girl on his knee And tells her things he won't tell me. "I pray and grieve, please tell me why. Is it because she has more gold than I? Her gold will melt, and her silver fly, And in time of need, she'll be poor as I. "Now dig my grave both wide and deep. Place a marble stone at my head and feet, And on my grave, a snow white dove, To prove to the world that I died for love." ------------- I hope the post isn't too long, and that someone will appreciate what I've done. In future, I will also add what I have discovered here. Many thanks, Ron---Ronorlynn@netins.net |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BUTCHER'S BOY (from Elizabeth Stewart From: toadfrog Date: 21 Dec 05 - 02:58 AM Elizabeth Stewart sings this "Butcher's Boy," and to me it looks like a completely different song from the above. The liner notes would suggest it's all the same, but the theme is different. It also has a different feel--it is blood-chilling rather than mournful. See that penultimate Verse! THE BUTCHER'S BOYO my parents they gi'ed to me good learning Good learning they gi'ed to me They sent me to a butcher shop A butcher's boy to be. I fell in love with a nice young lass She'd a dark and a roving 'ee I promised for to marry her If one night she would lie with me He courted her for many a month Six long months and mair But another ain had ta'en his ee And he was to despair. For Mary Ann was wi' bairn to him O Willie fit will I dee For my bairn will soon be born, So Willie marry me! He went up to her parents' house Twixt the hours of eight or nine He asked her for to take a walk Down by the riverside They walked east and the walked west And they walked all around Till he took a knife from out his breast And he stabbed her to the ground She fell upon her bended knee And for mercy she did cry O Willie dear don't murder me And leave me here to die He took her by her milk white hand And he dragged her on and on until he came to a rushing stream, and he plunged her body in. O he went on to his mother's house, 'Tween the hours of twelve and one 'Tis little did his mother think What her only son had done. Well the answer she did put to him, Why the bloodstains on your clothes The answer that he give to her 'Twas from a bleeding nose He asked her for a candle For to light him up to bed And likewise for a handkerchief For to tie around his head. No peace nor rest could the young man take No peace nor rest could he find For he thought he saw the flames of hell Approachin' in his mind. This man he has been taen and tried And the gallows was his doom, For the murdering of sweet Mary Ann Afore that was in bloom. JWM |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: The Butcher Boy From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 21 Dec 05 - 03:58 AM Yes, it's a quite different song: a form of The Bloody Miller (many other titles, including The Wittam Miller, The Oxford -sometimes Wexford or even Waxweed- Girl, Hangèd I Shall Be, and so on). Quite a number of past discussions here deal with aspects of it, and the date and location of the original murder are known (see in particular the late Bruce Olson's comments). Roud 263, Laws P35. |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: The Butcher Boy From: toadfrog Date: 21 Dec 05 - 11:21 PM Why thanks, Malcom! I have not been around for a while, and it is inspiring to see you still hard at work. |
Subject: RE: Origin: The Butcher Boy From: GUEST Date: 14 Feb 11 - 09:28 PM its english , and is london town not dublin |
Subject: RE: Origin: The Butcher Boy From: GUEST,mg Date: 14 Feb 11 - 10:08 PM You can go to you tube and see a most beautiful version sung by a Russian group of women...someone got the words in Russian from an old woman..it is one of my favorite you tubisms. mg |
Subject: RE: Origin: The Butcher Boy From: GUEST,mg Date: 14 Feb 11 - 10:54 PM Anastasia Ploshkina is the director of the show and she describes the song here: In researching their show based on Russian folk music and dance, Koleso have uncovered an extraordinary ancient and poignant link between the ordinary people of Russia and England. Deep in the Russian countryside in a very remote village, they found a very old woman called Olga Sergeeva. After her daughter died, tragically, Olga Sergeeva never spoke another word for 10 years and then amazingly she began to sing, and sing ancient Russian songs passed down to her through the generations with a tender mellow timbre that moved any who heard it to tears. Koleso were intrigued by one of her songs, "Skagi-skagi". After much research, they found extraordinarily that this song from the remote heart of Russia was based on the English song In London City which they now include in their show." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oius1eEpghU |
Subject: RE: Origin: The Butcher Boy From: Tradsinger Date: 15 Feb 11 - 05:49 AM You can check out my rendering here. Enjoy Tradsinger |
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