Скачать с ютуб The Lark in the Morning (trad; Roud 151) Week 218, 18 May 2025 в хорошем качестве

The Lark in the Morning (trad; Roud 151) Week 218, 18 May 2025

Continuing this month's theme of May... As I have said before, May seems to be probably the month most often mentioned in folk songs, many of which celebrate the first of the month, so I am returning to the theme of 'May' for this month (before this month there were already 28 songs in my 'May songs' playlist, but there are still plenty more!). "The Lark in the Morning" celebrates both the lark of the title and ploughboys. Like many May songs, it is a song of courtship (or seduction), in which a young ploughboy meets a fair maid on a May morning, and generally a tumble in the hay results. In this version, euphemistically he offers to 'take her to the fair' and buy her ribbons to tie up her hair - although initially she rejects him, after walking and talking he does indeed bring her 'to the fair' and buy her ribbons. This particular version of "The Lark in the Morning"* was collected from Lucy Stewart of Fetterangus, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, by Peter Kennedy and Hamish Henderson in 1955 and was published in 1975 in Kennedy's "Folk Songs Of Britain And Ireland" as "The Ploughboy". its most common title (sometimes just "The Lark in the Morn"), though as a Ploughboy is one of the protagonists, it's also know by titles referring to him, eg "The Pretty Ploughboy", "The Ploughboy's Glory". The title apparently came about because larks are among the first birds to start singing in the morning. The song notes in "Marrow Bones" say that there are two related broadsides which are the ancestors to the collected oral versions: first "The Plowman's'' Glory" in 1779, and then ones in the nineteenth century (often more down-to-earth about the tumble in the hay aspect and 'thickening in the waist' consequences). This was a very popular song (particularly amongst ploughmen and ploughboys I assume!) and was often collected (though the Victorian song collectors were sometimes rather prudish about the contents of some of the verses). A different version of "The Lark in the Morning" is no. 99 in "The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs". I learnt this song from Peter Kennedy's 1975 "Folk Songs Of Britain And Ireland", which published Lucy Stewart's version of the song. The melody is in 6/8 and is broadly ABBA in structure, with a range of an octave and a half. I have tweaked the words a bit, mostly in the first verse (to avoid repetition), and added a repeat of the 'lark' verse at the end, though this time using a more typical formulation of this verse so that I did actually sing the words of the song title "The Lark in the Morning" exactly. As it's been published, I assume others will have sung and maybe recorded this version, though I've not heard it sung nor do any of the quotes of sleeve notes on Mainlynorfolk's song page refer to this version currently - which was one of my reasons for picking this version. For more notes and lyrics see: https://mainlynorfolk.info/steeleye.s... For other songs I have sung celebrating May Day and/or May generally, see the songs in my 'May songs' playlist:    • May songs