Comments on: Tha’ Lowks A Proper Swell Lass

By: Listen to Sing-Folk-Speak 2012 | SING - FOLK - SPEAK

Listen to Sing-Folk-Speak 2012 | SING - FOLK - SPEAK — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:30:41 +0000

[...] Here Fay discusses and sings a Derbyshire folk song she first heard performed by Keith Hendrick. Fay’s partner, Jon Boden, has also recorded this number as part of his ‘A Folk Song in a Day’ project. His thoughts on the song can be found via this link. [...]

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:45:09 +0000

You did a grand job on that song Jon. Us southerners never completely lose that southern sound. Up north people think we come from the south and down south it is vice versa – must live in no man’s land eh?

By: judith

judith — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:52:08 +0000

perhaps you would like to try Les Barker’s take on Sally Wheatley.
You can get away with a southern accent in that one[nearly], but its a lasses song!
Makes it a quadrilateral not a triangle.

By: Rosie

Rosie — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:00:44 +0000

Beautifully sung, glad that I heard it second time round.

By: muzza(s.e.England)

muzza(s.e.England) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:59:30 +0000

I can’t believe I didn’t comment on this last year…….perhaps it would have been too repetitve to say….”Excellent” day after day…enchanting song/performance/guitar.
and I had a girl friend that married into wealth…………when she could have shared poverty with ME!..
we are still in touch ………unfortunately,she is now in such poor health, I can’t offer fish and chips.

By: edith lewis

edith lewis — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:49:27 +0000

It is so great to be listening to all these wonderful songs again.

By: Jon Boden

Jon Boden — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:54:03 +0000

I do like Sally Wheatley and have considered learning it. Problem is if you southernise the chorus is doesn’t really rhyme or scan… RP proof!

By: Alan Rosevear

Alan Rosevear — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:28:23 +0000

This is also on The Derby Ram (me mam gev it me as a tape but a’v got’th CD now) issued by Steel Carpet Music 2001 and still available from Keith Kendrick. It’s a song that reminds me of people I knew back there so I’ll try to learn it and see if I can still slip into the accent after 40 years away; – though it still works well enough with Jon’s RP – thanks for the inspiration.

By: Simon Dewsbury

Simon Dewsbury — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:50:48 +0000

… “Yes of course I’m alright, I’ve just got something in my eye.” No, not me, I just need to clean my glasses for some reason. Another wonderful song I’d never heard before.

By: Barbara Brown

Barbara Brown — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:41:38 +0000

I agree, it’s a superb song. Julia, the song you were referring to is ‘Sally Wheatley’, another excellent, rather winsome, song by the famous Geordie writer Joe Wilson.