Folk Songs and Footpaths: Part 2

Day 2 – Cocking to Amberley, 13 miles

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may I be gay – e.e. cummings

may I be gay

like every lark

who lifts his life

from all the dark who wings his why

beyond because
and sings an if

of day to yes

(listen) – e.e. cummings 

(listen)

this a dog barks and
how crazily houses
eyes people smiles
faces streets
steeples are eagerly

tumbl

ing through wonder
ful sunlight
– look –
selves,stir:writhe
o-p-e-n-i-n-g

are(leaves;flowers)dreams

,come quickly come
run run
with me now
jump shout(laugh
dance cry

sing)for it’s Spring

– irrevocably;
and in
earth sky trees
:every
where a miracle arrives

(yes)

you and I may not
hurry it with
a thousand poems
my darling
but nobody will stop it

With All the Policemen In The World

A – Maying (Heyshott)

Oh my daddy has gone to the market a mile and my mammy she’s minding the mill all the while.

In comes my dear Johnny and this he was saying, go with me my Betsy and we’ll go a-maying

Oh no dearest Johnny it’s a folly to ask for my mammy’s a spinning she’s set me a task,

Says he cut the tyre let the cows go a-staying, for the time will go sweetly while we go a-maying

My daddy he asked oh where had I been? My mammy she told him I’d the cows to fetch in.

My mammy she said somewhere I’d been a-playing, but she never had no thoughts that I’d been a-maying

If my Johnny proves true, which I hope that he will. Then we will get married and honour the mill.

My daddy and mammy we will leave them a-staying, for the time went so sweetly while we were a-maying.

David Miles / 12 Nov 1912 / Heyshott / Dorothy Marshall http://www.vwml.org/record/CC/1/319

 

The Bee Worsle, Duncton  http://www.vwml.org/record/CJS2/9/76

The Apple Worsle, Duncton http://www.vwml.org/record/CJS2/9/77

Link to Dorothy Marshall article –  Marshall (many thanks to EDFSS library)

Halnaker Mill, Stane Street  http://www.sussexias.co.uk/images/mills/scm308.gif

David Miles, Heyshott http://www.gravelroots.net/miles.html

Oakscroft, Heyshott http://www.gravelroots.net/history/41_2.html

May celebrations 1904, Heyshott  http://www.gravelroots.net/history/42.html#here

The Cobbler, Henry Burstow http://www.vwml.org/record/LEB/2/14/2

The Spotted Cow, John Rowe http://www.vwml.org/record/CC/1/312

Green Bushes from the Edwin Spooner who we mentioned, collected from the workhouse in Midhurst, this is one song of many http://www.vwml.org/record/GB/6a/82

Barbara Allen tune, Mr Dearling, West Burton http://www.vwml.org/record/GB/7a/39

Barbara Allen lyrics, David Miles, Heyshott http://www.vwml.org/record/CC/1/314

FYI A version of BA collected from Terwick Sussex  http://www.vwml.org/record/CC/1/6

What’s the Life of a Man, Frank Dawtrey, Crowshole  http://www.vwml.org/record/CC/1/39

Green Bushes, Mr and Mrs Stemp, Trotton http://www.vwml.org/record/CC/1/86

Cruel Father and Affectionate Lovers, Mr Viney, Houghton http://www.vwml.org/record/CC/1/329

The Servant Man tune, Walter Searle, Amberley http://www.vwml.org/record/LEB/2/29/1

The Servant Man lyrics, Walter Searle, Amberley http://www.vwml.org/record/LEB/2/33

The Servant Man lyrics, John Searle, Amberley http://www.vwml.org/record/LEB/2/34/1

Interview with Bob Lewis by Vic Smith: http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/b_lewis.htm

The Ones That Got Away:

As I was Going Up Cocking Hill, Jim Madgwill, Henry Hill, Clive Carey 1911

The Hounds Are All Out in The Morning, The Spanish Shore, Barley Mow, Will Of The Waggon Train, Frank Dawtrey, Clive Carey 1911

Come All You Worthy Christians, Green Broom, The Nutting GIrl, The Miller Of Staffordshire, Lord Thomas and Fair Elenor, Van Dieman’s Land, I Am A Brisk And Bonny Lass, Twanky Dillo, Old King Cole, Nothing Else To Do (all lyrics only), David Miles, Heyshott, Dorothy Marshall 1912

Old Reynard, Seven Long Miles, Sober Jenny, Little Mary, Pretty Sally, The Murderer (all lyrics only), John Rowe, Duncton, Clive Carey and Dorothy Marshall 1912

Highland Soldier, Ploughboy’s Glory, You Seaman Bold, Barbara Allen, Jolly Ploughboys (all music only), Mr Dearling, West Burton, George Butterworth 1907

The Cobbler and The Miser, The Irish Stranger, Farmer Waterloo, Amberley, John Searle, Lucy Broadwood 1901

Bonny Bunch Of Roses Oh!, Come My Own One, Amberley, Walter Searle, Lucy Broadwood 1901

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