A traditional English ballad. Except…

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A slip jig by fiddler Tommy Potts. This butterfly was feasting in our flower box.

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“Blow Thy Horn Hunter” is a 16th century English madrigal by William Cornysh.

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Traditional English melody, one of the tunes included in the Playford Dancing Master (1651 - http://playforddances.com). Celtic Harp‚ Recorder‚ 12 String Guitar‚ Finger Cymbals‚ Bass

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“Cruel Sister”, also known as “The Twa Sisters” is a 17th century folk song, thought to have originated in England or Scotland. There are many variations of the song, but all with the same basic plot (see below). I first learned the song when Pentangle released their version in 1970.

Note: If you don’t have the patience to listen to the whole video, here’s the “Cliff Notes” version. A knight comes a-looking for a wife - he woos the crabby older one because… she’s older so she’s supposed to marry first. But he falls in love with the much nicer younger one (she’s blond, so he thinks she’ll be more fun). Older Sis isn’t thrilled with the situation so she drowns Younger Sis. A bit later a couple of minstrel dudes are walking the beach when Younger Sis’s body washes up onto the shore. They make a harp out of her breast bone, because who wouldn’t do that, right?!

And what do you think their next gig is? Older Sis’s wedding! But when they get there the harp begins to play itself, and outs her nasty older sister as her murderer.

Revenge is sweet, AND she gets to be a harp, so win-win!

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Peter Bellamy put Rudyard Kipling's 1906 poem 'A Tree Song' to music in 1977 about three ancient trees of England (oak, ash, hawthorn).

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Andy M. Stewart wrote this love song for his band, Silly Wizard in1983.

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A traditional Irish love song that first appeared in print in 1886.

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Lady Carolina Nairne wrote this poem in 1796 for Mrs Campbell Colquhoun of Killermont, whose infant daughter had died, and who was on her death bed herself. “Leal” means “loyal” or “faithful”, and “Land of the Leal” means “Heaven”.

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Irish poet Thomas Moore’s 1805 poem set to the traditional melody "Aisling an Óigfhear" (“The Young Man's Dream"). Moore wrote the poem in County Kilkenny. Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

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Here in the Beautiful Finger Lakes Region flooding is not uncommon. And this is what I found when I walked out to the street to retrieve my trash can this morning.

Suddenly this song started playing in my head as the water seeped over my shoes and soaked my feet. It is a British folk song from Cecil Sharp’s 1906 collection.

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Castle Kelly is a reel from the early 1800s, thought to be named for a castle in Galway.

By the way, the estate in the video is not Castle Kelly - it’s a computer generated image of an estate from the period. The six of me and the instruments are real, however. Appropriate as the melody is a reel that is also real.

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Morfydd Llwyn Owen’ Suo Gan (lullaby) was first published in 1800. Lyrics were added by Robert Bryan over a half century later, but I like it as an instrumental. I envisioned this video as a child’s dreamland.

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Castle Kelly is a reel from the early 1800s, thought to be named for a castle in Galway.

By the way, the estate in the video is not Castle Kelly - it’s a computer generated image of an estate from the period. The six of me and the instruments are real, however. Appropriate as the melody is a reel that is also real.

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This early 18th century Scottish song is reportedly based on the Duke of Marlborough’s campaign in Flanders in 1706/7 during the War of the Spanish Succession.

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Despite the title, “Scotch Cap” is an English Renaissance court dance, published in 1651 in John Playford’s “Playford’s English Dancing Master”.

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Leonard McNally (lyrics) and James Hook (music) wrote “The Lass Of Richmond Hill” in the late 1700s. The subject is Frances l’Anson of Hill House in Richmond (North Yorkshire, England), who became McNally’s wife.

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Scottish poet Robert Burns’ iconic love song, written to his friend Agnes Maclehose in a letter in 1791.

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A slow air composed in 1968 by Seán Ó Riada to accompany an 18th century poem by Peadar Ó Doirnín.

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He killed seven women. Number eight gets revenge.

“False Sir John” is a variant of “Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight”, one of the Child Ballads collected from England, Scotland, and America around the 1960s. The heroine of the song, May Colvin, must have been familiar with a lot of English and Celtic songs in which a suitor tricked a women out of her money and killed her, because May turns the tables on Sir John and lives to tell about it.

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#harp #revenge #funnyharp #funnyvideos #danharpmusic #english #scottish #falsesirjohn