Goooooood Morning, Mastodonia!

June Tabor - Rhosyn Wyn / Winterrose (Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen)

https://open.spotify.com/track/6GBldu61SZwQL0XLhqTJdU

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#music #leepvogel #goodMorning #JuneTabor

Our latest look at the world of folk has a strong theme this month with albums from @nualakennedymusic, @rachelnewtonmusic, @mairearadgreen, @OBrienandFlick, @rakishduo, @theriverdrivers and @oysterband1 and #JuneTabor

https://americana-uk.com/folk-roundup-rakish-hannah-obrian-and-grant-flick-mairearad-green-and-rachel-newton-river-drivers-nuala-kennedy-and-eamon-o-leary-june-tabor-the-oysterband

Une chanson de June Tabor pour le soir..

A place called England. Enregistrée ici en 2004 à la BBC. Vous conviendrez que les paroles sont très actuelles, à l'heure où les tories en Grande-Bretagne sombrent, à l'instar des autres pays européens, dans le racisme le plus radical.

"Et venez tous ici avec la liberté, quelle que soit la terre qui vous a donné naissance
Il y a de la place pour vous, racines et branches, tant que vous aimez la terre anglaise.
De la place pour le campagnol et de la place pour l'orchidée, de la place pour tous pour grandir et prospérer.
Il y a juste moins de place pour le gros propriétaire terrien, sur son cul dans son 4x4"

[Verse 1]
I rode out on a bright May morning, like a hero in a song
Looking for a place called England, trying to find where I belong
Couldn’t find the old flood meadow, or the house that I once knew
No trace of that little river, or the garden where I grew

[Verse 2]
I saw town and I saw country, motorway and sink estate
Rich man in his rolling acres, poor man still outside the gate
Retail park and burger kingdom, prairie field and factory farm
Run by men who think that England’s only a place to park their car

[Verse 3]
But as the train pulled from the station, through the wastelands of despair
From the corner of my eye, a brightness filled the filthy air
Someone’s sown a patch of sunflowers, though the soil is sooty black
Marigolds and a few tomatoes, right beside the railway track

[Verse 4]
Down behind the terraced houses, in between the concrete towers
Compost heaps and scarlet runners, secret gardens full of flowers
Meeta grows the scented roses, right beneath the big jet’s path
Bid a fortune for her garden, Eileen turns away and laughs

[Verse 5]
Rise up George, and wake up Arthur, time to rouse out from your sleep
Deck the horse with sea-green ribbons, drag the old sword from the deep
Hold the line for Dave and Daniel as they tunnel through the clay
While the oak in all its glory soaks up sun for one more day
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[Verse 6]
And come all you at home with freedom, whatever the land that gave you birth
There’s room for you, both root and branch, as long as you love the English earth
Room for vole and room for orchid, room for all to grow and thrive
Just less room for the fat landowner, on his arse in his four-wheel drive

[Verse 7]
For England is not flag or empire, it is not money and it is not blood
It’s limestone gorge and granite fell, it’s Wealden in clay and Severn mud
It's blackbirds singing from the may-tree, lark ascending through the scales
Robin watching from your spade and English earth beneath your nails

[Verse 8]
Here’s two cheers for a place called England, sore abused but not yet dead
A Mr. Harding sort of England, hanging in there by a thread
Here’s two cheers for the crazy diggers, now their row shall come around
We shall plant the seed they saved us, commonwealth and common ground

[Outro]
Here’s two cheers for the crazy diggers, now their row is come around
We shall plant the seed they saved, commonwealth and common ground

https://youtu.be/dV6xiU4XyoM?feature=shared

#England #JuneTabor

This 1990 video of June Tabor singing outdoors in Germany includes one of the loveliest versions of the traditional Irish/Scottish heatbreaker ' Bridget O'Malley' that you will ever hear.

#JuneTabor #IrishTrad #ScottishTrad #FolkMusic #heartbreak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxMJPpZSIuM&t=0s&pp=2AGDAZACAQ%3D%3D

June Tabor's song "The King of Rome" always brings me out in goosebumps. It says so much so simply. And that high note (trumpet?) when he's on the roof! Wow. Shivers.
Listen on your preferred streaming service:
https://songwhip.com/june-tabor/the-king-of-rome

#EllieKPosts #ImListening #Music #EnglishFolk #JuneTabor

Well Damn. A friend just alerted me that #LesBarker has passed on. He wrote both comedic and serious poems, occasionally recruiting musicians such as #MartinCarthy and #JuneTabor to perform his work.

https://youtu.be/TMjbVHil__c

La meva #CançóDelDia és avui de la #JuneTabor #Warwick #Folk 🌺!