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The Pleading Sister (Little Boy Blue, Roud 19703)

from Findings by Ange Hardy & Lukas Drinkwater

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Ange: “To the best of my knowledge there is just the one verse to Little Boy Blue. I found myself wondering what work he may have been avoiding while sleeping beneath the haystack, and so I wrote the surrounding story of his pleading sister; who suffers the consequence of Little Boy Blue’s idleness when she is trampled by startled cows and impaled on a blunt pitchfork.”

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Oh brother, dear brother, oh brother of mine, will you tell our father to sharpen the tine? For I am to gather the straw from the ground, and you are to herd and to tether the cows.

Oh brother, dear brother, oh brother so sweet, will you tell our father to call off the beat? For scared are the cattle to hear such a din and I must be working the barn they are in.

Oh brother, dear brother, oh brother of mine, where are you now roaming and what did you find to call and distract you away from your task? For I am to find you did not what I ask.

“Oh Little Boy Blue,
Come blow your horn,
The sheep’s in the meadow,
The cow’s in the corn;
But where is the boy
Who looks after the sheep?
He’s under the haystack,
Fast asleep.”

Oh brother, dear brother, oh brother so sweet, will you tell our father to stand at my feet? And pray for his daughter all trodden and tanned, Who fell to the floor and on rough tine did land.

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from Findings, released September 14, 2016
Ange Hardy (vocals).

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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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