What will become of England? / Harry Cox.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Cox, Harry, 1885-1971, performer.

Contributor:

Kennedy, Peter, 1922-2006.

Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002.

Series:

Music online: American song.

Music online: American song

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk music--England.

Folk music.

England.

Folk songs, English--England.

Folk songs, English.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (79 min.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Rounder Records, 2000.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Contents:

What will become of England (0:50)

My life (1:05)

A-going to Widdliecombe fair (1:07)

Working in a gang (0:25)

The spotted cow (1:40)

Barton waltz (0:49)

The harvest (0:47)

The barley straw (2:51)

The farmer's servant (2:37)

The pretty ploughboy (0:33)

My grandfather and my father (1:18)

Jack Tar on shore (2:26)

Two hornpipes: Yarmouth and Meg Merillees (0:44)

On board of the Kangaroo (0:17)

Young and growing (0:58)

My mother (1:16)

My upbringing (0:57)

The foggy dew (3:55)

Hunger and pay (1:09)

Three toasts (1:45)

Nelson's monument (2:56)

I used to go along of him (1:12)

Barton Broad barbing ballad (2:16)

Barbing for eels (0:49)

Talk and melodeon pieces (2:40)

Singing in public houses (0:59)

Charming and delightful (0:34)

The old songs (0:27)

On yon lofty mountain (0:30)

Learning from my father (1:28)

She never had time to sit down (1:00)

The Turkish lady (1:50)

Poaching (1:36)

Henry the poacher (5:23)

Windy old weather (1:53)

My father at sea (1:00)

Sweet William (2:53)

How my father learned songs (0:18)

The Yarmouth fishermen's song (2:58)

The crocodile (1:15)

The soldier and sailor's prayer (1:57)

London is as sharp as the edge of a knife (1:23)

Up to the rigs of London town (3:31)

Up to the present I ain't forgot anything yet (1:36)

Blackberry fold (5:25)

Adieu to the old Eng-e-land, here's adieu (1:10).

Notes:

English folk songs, interspersed with the singer's recollections.

Notes by Peter Kennedy, song texts, transcription of recorded conversations with the singer, and bibliography ([38] p. : ports.) from original container.

Originally issued as compact disc.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2009. (American song). Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

11661-1839-2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.