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FTX-203 - WORKSONGS & CHANTS

PORTLAND STONE QUARRIES

Quarrymen's Work-songs & Chants recorded by Peter Kennedy in 1954 at Easton, on the Isle of Portland, near Weymouth, Dorset - a remarkable survival of the landsman's equivalent of the sea-shanty - among those explaining the processes were Harry HOUNSELL, George STONE, Joe WHITE and Jack STEWKESBURY - with talk about Reaming-up - Portland jacks - wreck of the French ship - leadership - apprentices - working in companies. 203Portland((PK#251).JPG
   

REAMING UP CHANT - EE KALAZEE (The French Song) - ROLL THE CHARIOT ALONG - MADAMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIERES - ROLL OUT THE BARREL - ROUND BOYS ROUND (Fleeting-up Song) - BEAT THE DRUM AGAIN - BOLD DANIEL

 

 

 

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