FTX-410 - NAY NOT
A BIT ON'T
Village Traditions - Lake District
| Dialect songs, speech, stories & dance-music of the lakes and fells
of Cumberland, Westmorland & West Yorkshire - Miles Wilson, Margaret
Dalton, Moore Sedgwick & Alan Nelson - local dances played by John Oliver
of Keswick (fiddle) & Fred Clarke of Kirkby Stephen (melodeon) - hunting
songs & stories - courting - rescuing a hound from an ice-covered tarn
- recorded by Peter Kennedy in 1954-1959 |
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JOE BOWMAN (Song followed by sound of the hunting horn) -
Story about a local fox hunt and talk about hunting songs - THE
ULLSWATER PACK - IT'S NOBBUT ME (poem composed by John Richardson of
St John's-in-the-Vale & published in "Cummerlan Talk" by John Russell Smith,
London 1871) - HOWGILL LADS - Talk about fox-hunting & song-making
& demonstration of hunting horn - NAY NOT A BIT ON'T (Dialect Song)
- Talk about previous song and story of courting in the old days -
WI' MY COURTIN' COAT ON - Talk about previous song & another courting
story - THE SQUARE EIGHT & THE HOOLIGAN (Local Country Dances) with
talk about playing - DRINK, PUPPY, DRINK & story of a hound falling
into a frozen tarn (lake) and its rescue - JOHN PEEL played for a Barn
Dance
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