A Music Thread

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I used to work with someone who went to school with Kate Bush. And someone who was at school with Brian Eno. Small world.

Her Irish roots are showing:

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Judy Dyble goes psych:

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Jethro Tull walking backwards, temporally...

Billie Davis also does a rather fine version...

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Steeleye Span and a visually challenged female:

Alison Gross that lives in yon tower
The ugliest witch in the North Country
Has trysted me one day up to her bower
And many a fair speech she made to me
She stroked my head and she combed my hair
She set me down softly on her knee
Saying if you will be my lover so true
So many good things I would give to you
Away, away, you ugly witch
Go far away and let me be
I never will be your lover so true
And wish I were out of your communy
Chorus:
Alison Gross she must be
The ugliest witch in the North Country
Alison Gross she must be
The ugliest witch in the North Country
She showed me a mantle of red scarlet
With golden flowers and fringes fine
Saying if you will be my lover so true
This goodly gift it shall be thine
She showed me a shirt of the softest silk

Well wrought with pearls abound the band
Saying if you will be my lover so true
This goodly gift you shall command
Chorus
She showed me a cup of the good red gold
Well set with jewels so fair to see
Saying if you will be my lover so true
This goodly gift I will give to thee
Away, away, you ugly witch
Go far away and let me be
I never would kiss your ugly mouth
For all of the gifts that you could give
Chorus
She turned her right and round about
And thrice she blew on a grass-green horn
She swore by the moon and the stars of above
That she'd make me rue the day I was born
The out she has taken a silver wand
She's turned her three times round and round
She muttered such words till my
strength it did fail
And she's turned me into an ugly worm
Chorus

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Pentangle & 'The Lyke Wake Dirge':

This ae nighte, this ae nighte,
Every nighte and alle,
Fire and fleet and candle-lighte,
And Christe receive thy saule.

When thou from hence away art past,
Every nighte and alle,
To Whinny-muir thou com'st at last;
And Christe receive thy saule.

If ever thou gavest hosen and shoon,
Every nighte and alle,
Sit thee down and put them on;
And Christe receive thy saule.

If hosen and shoon thou ne'er gav'st nane
Every nighte and alle,
The whinnes sall ***** thee to the bare bane;
And Christe receive thy saule.

From Whinny-muir whence thou may'st pass,
Every nighte and alle,
To Brig o' Dread thou com'st at last;
And Christe receive thy saule.

If ever thou gav'st silver and gold,
Every nighte and alle,
At t' Brig o' Dread thou'lt find foothold,
And Christe receive thy saule.

But if silver and gold thou never gav'st nane,
Every nighte and alle,
Down thou tumblest to Hell flame,
And Christe receive thy saule.

From Brig o' Dread whence thou may'st pass, Every nighte and alle,
To Purgatory fire thou com'st at last;
And Christe receive thy saule.

If ever thou gav'st meat or drink,
Every nighte and alle,
The fire sall never make thee shrink;
And Christe receive thy saule.

If meat or drink thou ne'er gav'st nane,
Every nighte and alle,
The fire will burn thee to the bare bane;
And Christe receive thy saule.

This ae nighte, this ae nighte,
Every nighte and alle,
Fire and fleet and candle-lighte,
And Christe receive thy saule

http://www.duntemann.com/likewakepage.htm

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Sandy Denny & Fotheringay... not enough footage, alas.

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The suffering of seamen. Ooo, err. The City Waites:

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Sunforest- actually some nice American gels, who also appear on the soundtrack to 'Clockwork Orange'....

and it's Raquel Welch t.v. special footage !

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Bill Fay, from 'The Time Of The Last Persecution':

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Famous not just for Bergerac, Edward Paisnel, Lillie Langtry and Victor Hugo in exile. The Parlour Band hailed from Jersey:

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Better to light a candle than complain about the darkness. Unless you're a cave-dwelling blind fish or newt, I suppose.

Mellow Candle:

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Galliard, who were a typically British mix of influences- folk, jazz, prog rock...

'Ask For Nothing'....

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Nowt so queer as folk. And here's some queer and old British folk to prove it, even though the first sounds remarkably Californian, late '60s early '70s, Byrds/CSNY ish...

Wooden Horse, from their album of the same name (rather rare, and no, I don't own it, more's the pity)

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lets hear from japan

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now for random music



meh.....sound of celtic metal





costumes too