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The Foster-Mother's Tale
03:07
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There once was a woodman, Leoni,
Could fell and saw with a lusty arm.
Took to the woods and by a tree
Found an abandoned child.
He took that baby under wing,
Wrapped in mosses lined with thistle-beards,
Took him home from the huge round beam
By the purse of the good Lord reared.
Gone is he! taken to the sea
Never again to see his father
Gone is he! taken to the sea
Never again to see his father!
Gone is he! taken to the sea
Never again to see his father; gone!
So the babe grew up did whistle and sing
Oh such a pretty boy! most untouchable!
Would not learn, would not come in
For out in the woods did play.
And out in the woods was a grey haired man,
And all through woodland lined with thistle-beards
Taught that youth to write with the pen
All through to his twentieth year.
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So many a book did the young man read
Filled his mind with unlawful thoughts.
One day as he stood with his Lord
The ground beneath them shook.
Well the earth did heave and the earth did groan
The wall fell down and it near fell on them,
All in a fright he came undone.
Confession: judgement comes!
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The youth was cast into a hole
And it broke the heart of poor Leoni,
So all at once that boy he stole
Sent him across the sea.
But the boy he turned; mad did go!
News it came to poor Leoni:
He seized a boat, set sail alone,
Died a savage man.
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My Captain
02:10
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My Captain you will never be free
For the call of the water binds you,
Take my liege and go with speed
And hope good fortunes find you.
Up the mast and up the sails
And down to the Captain’s quarters.
Down the rum and talk of home
But never of the Captain’s daughters!
My Captain you will never be free
For the winds control and guide you,
The ice and mist can shape and twist
The tale you leave behind you.
So up the mast and up the sails
And down to the Captain’s quarters.
Down the rum and talk of home
But never of the Captain’s daughters!
My Captain you will never be free
Although the blood sun guises
For all your four times fifty men
Can’t change the way she rises.
Up the mast and up the sails
And down to the Captain’s quarters
Down the rum and talk of home
But never of the Captain’s daughters!
My Captain you will never be free
For the call of the water binds you,
Take my liege and go with speed
And hope good fortunes find you.
Up the mast and up the sails
And down to the Captain’s quarters
Down the rum and talk of home
But never of the Captain’s daughters!
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Four times fifty men did lie
With heavy thump nor groan nor sigh,
I can’t look away, Lord knows I’ve tried,
From the curse of a dead man’s eye.
All in a hot and a copper sky
Parched only dust in my lungs so dry,
I drink of the blood from my arms to cry
for the curse of a dead man’s eye.
All at my feet did the dead men lie
Lay like a load on my weary eye,
Alone, all alone, yet I could not die
for the curse of a dead man’s eye.
The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.
All but the dead men rot and blight
The rotting flesh did reek awry,
And all but the souls of the dead men lie
for the curse of a dead man’s eye.
All at my feet did the dead men lie
Lay like a load on my weary eye,
Alone, all alone, yet I could not die
for the curse of a dead man’s eye.
The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.
Four times fifty men did lie
With heavy thump nor groan nor sigh,
I can’t look away, Lord knows I’ve tried,
From the curse of a dead man’s eye.
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William Frend
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Oh sweet William Frend,
Who can condemn? When,
Oh sweet William Frend,
We stand as equal men?
Oh as equal men,
Oh as equal men,
Oh as equal men!
And oh sweet William Frend,
They’ll not condemn when
They all glorious rise again
And stand as equal men!
Oh as equal men,
Oh as equal men,
Oh as equal men!
Rise and stand for liberty,
Applause will sound in the balcony,
So rise and stand for liberty,
Applause will sound in the balcony,
So rise and stand for liberty of men!
Oh sweet William Frend,
Who can condemn? When,
Oh sweet William Frend,
We stand as equal men!
Oh as equal men,
Oh as equal men,
Oh as equal men!
So rise and stand for liberty,
Applause will sound in the balcony,
So rise and stand for liberty,
Applause will sound in the balcony,
So rise and stand for liberty of men!
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Friends of Three
02:49
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On a cold and careless winter’s morn’
With quill and coat adorned,
Take to the hills all for to walk
All over the heathery moorland.
The climb, the hill, the rustic path,
The broken wall beside us
And to the open skies at last
We on the moors resided.
And in the upward Quantock breeze
Where proud the beacon rises,
We look toward the icy sea
And to the shores of Cardiff.
The climb, the hill, the rustic path,
The broken wall beside us
And to the open skies at last
We on the moors resided.
Sir Wordsworth he will walk with me
To talk of all besides us,
The sweet and lovely Dorothy
Between our words will guide us.
The climb, the hill, the rustic path,
The broken wall beside us
And to the open skies at last
We on the moors resided.
And so the days we friends of three
With all the Lord provided,
Will spend in splendid company
And all of life confided.
The climb, the hill, the rustic path,
The broken wall beside us
And to the open skies at last
We on the moors resided.
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Kubla Khan
04:01
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:
And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ’twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
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George
02:10
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Who am I my brother,
My earliest friend,
That you be a father to me?
For the prayers of your heart
To upon me descend
As the prayers of your first bended knee.
Oh the prayers of a young
and unquestioning heart,
Where hope calms the fiercest of seas.
Who am I my brother,
My earliest friend,
That you be a father to me?
Who am I my brother,
My earliest friend,
To ask of your patience, and plea
For a love that will conquer forgive and defend
When discordant my own mind should be?
Oh the prayers of a young
And unquestioning heart,
Where hope calms the fiercest of seas.
Who am I my brother,
My earliest friend,
That you be a father to me?
Who am I my brother,
My earliest friend,
That you be a father to me?
For the prayers of your heart
To upon me descend
As the prayers of your first bended knee.
For the prayers of a young
And unquestioning heart,
Where hope calms the fiercest of seas.
Who am I my brother,
My earliest friend,
That you be a father to me?
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Pantisocracy
02:13
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Three sons and daughters, girls and men,
Each to marry a courter,
Vowed to leave all they had and prepare
To go and live by the water.
Three wives and husbands, all as friends,
Each to found a new order,
Vowed to work in the wide open
When they live out by the water.
Oh one for Edith young and free,
And one for lovely Mary,
One for Sara who will be
The girl that I shall marry.
Three sons and daughters, girls and men,
Each to start an uprising,
Vowed to prosper good will to men
All by new waters residing.
Three wives and husbands, all as friends,
Each to leave all they own, for they
Vowed to work in the wide open and
Build a life by the water.
Oh one for Edith young and free,
And one for lovely Mary,
One for Sara who will be
The girl that I shall marry.
Three sons and daughters, girls and men,
Each to walk up the alter,
Vowed to leave all they had and prepare
To go and live by the water.
Three wives and husbands fall as friends
Pantisocracy falters…
Vowed to work in the wide open but
Couldn’t agree on the waters!
Oh one for Edith young and free,
And one for lovely Mary,
One for Sara who will be
The girl that I shall marry.
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Epitaph On An Infant
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Ere sin could blight or Sorrow fade
Death came with friendly care
The opening bud to Heaven conveyed
And bade it blossom there
This lovely bud, so young so fair,
Called hence by early doom,
Just came to show how sweet a flower
In paradise would bloom.
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Might Is In The Mind
02:20
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It is a sombre story, one to you I now bequeath,
of phantom visions, apparitions, and all that lies beneath!
How few now told before me will a victim of you find;
Oh hear my tale and listen well, for might is in the mind!
A man in university at only twenty-two
Would not believe in ghostly fiends, would not be found a fool.
But he who tempts the trickster will face a fate unkind,
Oh hear my tale, listen well, for might is in the mind.
One night our young strong headed man was sleeping in his bed
When a friend did come and took his gun, removed from it the lead.
He stood all dressed in white and cried a ghostly chime,
Oh hear my tale, listen well, for might is in the mind!
The man awoke from slumber, took up his bedside gun:
“So false you are you’ve gone to far, back down my friend be gone!”
But neither would surrender, both to their fates were blind,
Oh hear my tale, listen well , for might is in the mind.
He tried to scare the trickster but movement there was none
and at long last when patience passed, he shot him with his gun!
The trickster stood in silence and neither bled nor died,
Oh hear my tale, listen well, for might is in the mind.
Our young man he did tear his hair, his teeth did gnash and grind,
Fell to the floor, convulsed in awe, was rendered mute and blind.
Believed the apparition and fell to his demise,
Oh hear my tale, listen well for might is in the mind!
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Mother You Will Rue Me
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On a hill in the valley where the Otter flows
(All for to cause to grieve
Mother you will rue me)
A chill and child and calf doth low
(All for to cause to grieve
Mother you will rue me)
Where only a torrid thorn warms my bones
(All for to cause to grieve
Mother you will rue me)
And the prayers of a shilling book make my moan
(All for to cause to grieve
Mother you will rue me)
All for to cause to grieve Mother I escape thee
Run from my brothers and deceive all of Ottery
Frozen and motionless Mother you will find me
All for to cause to grieve none of you will bind me
You call on the crier for to call me home
(All for to cause to grieve
Mother you will rue me)
And the blade of a rotting tale sealed unknown
(All for to cause to grieve
Mother you will rue me)
On a hill in the valley where the river flows
(All for to cause to grieve
Mother you will rue me)
A chill and child and calf doth low
(All for to cause to grieve
Mother you will rue me)
All for to cause to grieve Mother I escape thee.
Run from my brothers and deceive all of Ottery
Frozen and motionless Mother you will find me
All for to cause to grieve none of you will bind me.
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Esteesee
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Four angels are here for my keeping
Stand Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
How I pray for a weak Esteesee
God bless the bed I lie on.
All in awe as the floor falls beneath me
Stand demons and ghosts at my door
How I pray for God’s angels to keep me
God bless the bed I lie on.
I am bound for my horrors and weeping
For my servitude barren and poor
How I pray God have mercy for grieving
God bless the bed I lie on.
Four corners to my bed,
Four angels round my head;
One to watch and one to pray
Two to bear my soul away.
Four corners to my bed,
Four angels round my head;
One to watch and one to pray
Two to bear my soul away.
Four angels are here for my keeping
Stand Matthew Mark Luke and John
How I pray for a weak Esteesee
God bless the bed I lie on.
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Along The Coleridge Way
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All for you Sir, all for you fine Sir
The awakening and the rising of the day.
All for you Sir, all for you fine Sir
I will walk along the Coleridge Way.
I’ll walk the trodden line fine Sir,
Form your work in words of mine fine Sir.
All for you Sir, all for you fine Sir
The awakening and the rising of the day.
All for you Sir, all for you fine Sir
I will walk along the Coleridge Way.
In the moving of the times fine Sir,
Your words will rise through mine fine Sir.
All for you Sir, all for you fine Sir
The awakening and the rising of the day.
All for you Sir, all for you fine Sir
I will walk along the Coleridge Way.
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Elegy For Coleridge
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Each is the life the Lord has made
And each from the womb of a mother came
All who live will go by grave
As all who fall before thee.
Come pray that he who toils of breath
As death in life finds life in death
Ask and hope through Christ in rest
As he who falls before thee.
Each is a day the Lord has made
And each with the mother of my children paved
Each of our boys both bright and brave
Two sons and one fine daughter.
Come Pray that he who toils of breath
As death in life finds life in death
Ask and hope through Christ in rest
As he who falls before thee.
Each is the hour the Lord has made
And each with my brother is a joyous trade
Mine mere words where his are ways
Two sons and one as father.
Come pray that he who toils of breath
As death in life finds life in death
Ask and hope through Christ in rest
As he who falls before thee.
Come pray that he who toils of breath
As death in life finds life in death
Ask and hope through Christ in rest
As he who falls before thee.
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Ange Hardy England, UK
Nominated for the Horizon Award for best emerging talent at the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Ange Hardy is a folk singer, songwriter and recording artist from West Somerset, England. Ange performs original contemporary songs written in a traditional style with an emphasis on vocal harmony. ... more
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