Better late than never and just to prove one of us was paying attention… “Thank you for your continued use of this site! Didn’t think about the leap year issue until reading muzza’s post just now. So here’s an emergency leap year track – recently learnt for a new Bellowhead album. Unfortunately I’m currently on the train so have had to record surreptitiously in the corridor. Think of it as a field recording. All the Best, Jon.”
Sorry folks, no notes or links from me today as I’m overwhelmed with a new issue of Properganda to get out in two different versions and including two different eight page supplements!!! Aaaaargh! But while I’m here I’ll sort the next few days songs that nearly didn’t make it either!!!
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Fantastic.
I check the site just before I turn off my computer about midnight (US Central) and usually find the new entry. Last night, I was perplexed briefly to find Oor Hamlet still at the top till I realized what had happened. Happy Leap Day.
Got to admore your devotion Jon – and Simon. Thank you both!
You can just imagine Jon wondering if someone’s going to wonder past and wonder what he’s doing. It’s the thrill of almost getting caught – more folk songs on public transport!
Or ‘admire’, even…
Sounds like an idea for a flashmob…
or maybe a new blog ‘folk song on a train’.
And the jolly bold robber didn’t get caught and hanged for his illicit public performance on the train.. Well done and thank you very much, Jon! (and thanks again for the fine Bellowhead concerts in Germany a few weeks ago)
Diana, you may torture your printer with the lyrics on Mainly Norfolk.
Great – another good one. Glad you got around to it Jon so thanks.
Reynard I tortured the printer and it gave up the information quite readily – didn’t
need the thumbscrews at all.
That’s what I call dedication to your art. Great. Thanks Jon
It’s not like you Reynard to mis-spell but have caught you out today reading all of my printout. I expect you were working under pressure so it’s easy to do. I’ll give you a clue – it’s just before the lyrics. So join the company of Ja/Jo/Di mostly.
Bravo, Jon!
Only one complaint – if you’re going to add new songs at this late date, couldn’t you have done Streets of London or something? I’m going to have to learn that one now – never come across it before, and it’s a terrific song. Many thanks!
I love the train noises. Seems to be traveling unusually fast.
They actually run folk trains from Manchester every now and again. Look forward to hearing the Bellowhead version. Thank you Jon ,Diana and I might have learnt the words in time for the Lowry!
For anyone who hasn’t heard it before, check out the lusty version by Nic Jones (on Game Set Match) and the rather more delicate, unusual treatment by Blackbeard’s Tea Party on their latest album. One of my favourites to sing while doing the washing-up!
What a trouper that Jon is!!!!!!.excellent………Iwould love to have been a fly on the wall to see the reaction of fellow travellers…..Jon could have started the recording with the ‘traditional’ cry of…”I’m on the train!”
Linda we may learn the words but by November 8.1/2 months from now we will probably forgotten them again. Are you in the stalls or the circle?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Fantastic! We have Poems on the Underground, so is this Folk on the Funicular? Certainly ‘fun’ anyway.
I, too, admire the dedication of all here and this is proof of folk as a really live event. What a *leap* of recording ingenuity!
Have this song on Nic Jones’ ‘Game, Set & Match’ too, as mentioned above. Ladies Who Want To Learn can listen to it that way.
I believe Mr Gavin Davenport recorded this on his album. It’s my favourite of his.