| Description | Caroline and Henry Hughes, travellers from Dorset, sing a number of folk songs
Track 1: Henry Hughes sings song beginning 'a clever young man now young Willy was' 1.24 mins
Track 2: Caroline Hughes sings song beginning 'we packed up our tent rods, our ridge poles, our pots and kettles' 0.49 mins
Track 3: Caroline Hughes sings song beginning 'oh there was a rich farmer living Chestfield' 2.19 mins
Track 4: Caroline Hughes sings song beginning 'oh in London town where I came from, well the butcher boy I love so dear' 2.36 mins
Track 5: Caroline Hughes sings song with the second line 'well I heard a poor woman cry' 2.16 mins
Track 6: Caroline Hughes sings 'Barbara Allen' 2.59 mins
Track 7: Caroline Hughes sings 'The Cuckoo' 2.44 mins
Track 8: Caroline Hughes sings song beginning 'Mandy went to pull the grass' and another song beginning 'Three girls they went to service together' 1.45 mins
Track 9: Caroline Hughes sings 'Caroline of Edinboro Town' 0.55 mins
Track 10: Caroline Hughes sings song beginning 'it was on a cold winter's night when it first came down to snow' 1.08 mins
Track 11: Caroline Hughes sings song beginning 'oh once I had a blue eyed lover' 2.17 mins
Track 12: Caroline Hughes sings song beginning 'oh was the first day in October' 1.27 mins
Track 13: Caroline Hughes sings a fragment of 'Fair Ellen', then tells the story in the lyrics of the song. She goes on to sing part of a song beginning 'come riddle come riddle my beau forester' 0.54 mins
Track 14: Caroline Hughes sings song beginning 'As I were a walking one bright summer's morning' 0.53 mins
Track 15: Henry Hughes sings song beginning 'As I were a walking one bright summer's morning' 2.47 mins
Track 16: Henry Hughes sings song 'It was down in stoney bottom a place called Derbyshire', and Caroline Hughes reminds him of the lyrics to the song 2.20 mins
Track 17: Caroline Hughes sings part of a song beginning 'Oh I am a True Bred Country Chap'. She asks another women to continue the song who begins 'Oh I an a True Bred Country Gent' 1.35 mins
Track 18: Caroline Hughes sings a song beginning 'Fair Ellen she got houses and land, oh the brown girl she got none' and stops singing to tell the story in the lyrics of the song 2.04 mins
Track 19: Henry Hughes sings song beginning 'Oh as I was walking up fair wagford street' 1.33 mins
Track 20: Caroline Hughes sings a song beginning 'Oh they all flocked around me like flocks of wild beasts' 0.58 mins
Track 21: Caroline Hughes sings 'The hobnail boots your father wore' 1.27 mins
Total: 37.18 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA 2 of 2 KF549C0342280 |