Whitby Bells is a contemporary folk song written by the late Dave Totterdell. The song tells the story of the bells of Whitby Abbey which were removed at the Dissolution. The ship taking the bells to London inexplicably sank in Saltwick Bay, and it is said that the submerged bells can still sometimes be heard ringing.

https://youtu.be/vB0M-bvaYRo

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#GoodMorning folk. A little song for #FolkMusicFriday. The Bay of Biscay, an Irish night visiting song

https://youtu.be/o76Y1YwoMLw

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#GoodMorning fair folk of Mastodon. This morning, a protest song written by Leon Rosselson, The World Turned Upside Down:

https://youtu.be/Kgf69e4BZk0

Ironically St George's Hill (in Weybridge, #Surrey, UK) mentioned in the song is now a private gated community.

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#GoodMorning MastoFolk. A #FolkSong from the west country (of England) for Friday. The Butcher and the Parson

https://youtu.be/PZ6PWwFDdlM

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Tom Paxton's song Bottle of Wine performed by yours truly

https://youtu.be/z-LgoVNiv1w

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@Phil @barnetboy Joe Fineman had, imo, the last word on Napoleon as history: "Napoleon, like Stalin, inherited a revolution with liberal and internationalist pretensions, and turned it into an instrument of imperial foreign policy. He had the use of fellow travellers in foreign countries, who took a lesser or greater while to catch on to his betrayal." But as folk song I like Napoleon's Dream.

“Like a soldier I've been in the heat and the cold,
As I marched to the trumpet and cymbal,
But by dark deeds of treachery I have been sold,
While monarchs before me have trembled.
Now rulers and princes their station demean,
And like scorpions spit forth their venom and spleen,
But liberty soon o'er the world shall be seen,”
As I woke from my dream, cried Napoleon.

Richard and Linda Thompson did a version of Napoleon's Dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvzzFVCIIyo

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This #FolkMusicFriday is Napoleon’s death day, so following @barnetboy ’s lead here is June Tabor singing The Bonny Bunch of Roses.

https://youtu.be/UVJJKApHT7o

It’s usually sung as far too much of a dirge, if I could I’d have shared English Rebellion’s cheery rendition to The Rose Tree (with bits of other tunes like The Sloe mixed in) but it doesn’t seem to be online anywhere

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#GoodMorning folks. It's #FolkFriday again already. Amongst other things, the anniversary of the death of Napoleon. So here is Bonaparte's Lament

https://youtu.be/6k6evhCMdao

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Originally written to revive the dwindling interest in the Royalist cause of Charles I and subsequently modified to support the restoration of Charles II. When The King Enjoys His Own Again

https://youtu.be/ukSybTy7RYs

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Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings playing the Townes Van Zandt song "Snowing on Raton"
https://youtu.be/TPiP3IjHn1U

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Today is #BandcampFriday, when BandCamp gives 100% of proceeds to artists. I'd like to direct your attention to some of my favourites:

https://theowlservice.bandcamp.com/
https://handspan.bandcamp.com/
https://stickinthewheel.bandcamp.com/

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