| Author | Topic: Add: On Christmas Day | |
| dmcg | Posted - 05 Oct 02 - 03:30 pm | |
On Christmas Day On Christmas Day it happened so, Down in the meadows for to plough; As we were ploughing on so fast Up comes sweet Jesus hisself at last. "O man, O man, what make you plough So hard upon the Lord's birthday?" The farmer answered him with great speed: "For the plough this day we have great need." His arms did quaver to and fro His arms did quaver, he could not plough. The ground did open and lose him in, Before he could repeant of sin. His wife and children are out of place, His beasts and cattle they die away; His beasts and cattle, they die away, For ploughing on our Lord's birthday. Source: Bushes and Briars (Vaughan Willaims), Ed Roy Palmer, ISBN 1-86143-072-8 Database entry is here | ||
| Malcolm Douglas |
Posted - 13 Oct 02 - 09:08 pm | |
Roud 1078. A set recorded by Fred Hamer from May Bradley of Ludlow, Shropshire, in 1959, appears in Hamer's Garners Gay (EFDS Publications, 1967) and can be heard on A Century of Song (EFDSS CD 002, 1998). | ||
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Posted - 11 Jul 05 - 11:08 pm | |
From: Bob Crampsey James Yorkston of Fife recorded a version of this for Domino Records a while ago. it's on his cd 'someplace simple' alongside a few other trad tunes & the Lal waterson number Scarecrow. | ||
| Malcolm Douglas |
Posted - 12 Jul 05 - 03:59 am | |
So he did. An arrangement of the set from Hampshire, printed in Alice Gillington's Old Christmas Carols, judging by the unusual title (In Dessexshire as it befel). I expect he got it from the Penguin Book of Ballads. It would be interesting to hear what he did with it. | ||
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Posted - 15 Aug 05 - 07:44 pm | |
From: BC you can hear a very brief sample here - http://www.karmadownload.com/stream/?9051 | ||