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FTX-517 - BLOODY WATERLOO

Napoleon - Songs, Marches & a Mummers Play

A Christmas Mummers Play from Dorset, with its song accompanied by melodeon, sets the period scene for 14 Napoleonic Ballads and 5 Marches played on fiddle. There is a composite version of the ever popular BONNY BUNCH OF ROSES-O performed by English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish singers, including some of the most outstanding traditional folksingers: Robert Cinnamond, Harry Cox, Sam Larner, Bert Lloyd, Jimmy McBeath, Jeannie Robertson, Willie Scott and Phil Tanner.

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The Dorchester Mummers Play (6.20) including songs (with melodeon) - BATTLE OF WATERLOO - BANKS OF CLYDE - BONNY BUNCH OF ROSES-O - BUONAPARTE'S RETREAT (fid) - NAPOLEON CROSSING THE ALPS (fid) - GRAND CONVERSATION OF NAPOLEON - NAPOLEON'S GRAND MARCH (fid) - FORFAR SODGER - GREEN LINNET - MANTLE SO GREEN - SWEET ERIN-GO-BRAGH - NAPOLEON BUON-IE-PARTE - NAPOLEON'S DREAM - RIGS OF THE TIME - TURPITON TOWN - TWA RECRUITIN' SAIRGEANTS

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