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The Painful Plough
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Roy Palmer (editor) |
The Songs
1. I Was Born at Barford
- Bird Scarer’s Cries
2. My First Employer
- The Farmers Done Over (Roud 21259)
- The New-Fashioned Farmer (Roud 1476)
- Country Hirings (Roud 12510)
3. I Never Took the Communion
- The Parson and the Sucking Pig (Roud 574; TYG 45)
4. We Labourers Had No Lack of Lords
- The Labouring Man (Roud 1156)
- Pity Poor Labourers (Roud V8898)
- The Owslebury Lads (Roud 17212)
5. Those Who Owned and Held the Land
- The Honest Ploughman (Roud 619)
6. From Crow-Scarer to Ploughboy
- Present Times, or Eight Shillings a Week (Roud V1255)
7. It was 1835
- Van Diemen’s Land (Roud 519; Laws L18; G/D 2:252)
- The Sheepstealer (Roud 1667)
8. I Stayed On in the Old Home
- Rigs of the Times (Roud 876)
- Poor Shepherds (Roud 3323)
9. In 1847
- Prop of the Land (Roud 1254)
10. By the End of the Sixties
- The Fine Old English Labourer (Roud V8901)
11. The Day Was 7th February, 1872
- My Master and I (Roud V15758)
12. At One Place, Forty-Five Men Gave in Their Names
- Come All You Bold Fellows That Follow the Plough
13. In My Own Country
- The Painful Plough (Roud 355; G/D 3:448)
- The Sheep Shearing (Roud 879)
14. The Day I Entered Parliament
- Three Acres and a Cow (Roud 24484)
15. As I Sit Here
- The Jolly Ploughboy (Roud 202)
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The Painful Plough
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The Painful Plough Topic/Impact Records IMP-A 103 (LP, UK, 1972) |
The songs presented here and additional songs, together with extracts from the writings of Joseph Arch (1826-1919; founder of the National Agricultural Labourers’ Union, 1872) and other documents, are included in a book edited by Roy Palmer: The Painful Plough, published by Cambridge University Press.
Recorded by Dick Swettenham in Birmingham in 1971;
Notes and production by Roy Palmer;
Sleeve design by Humphrey Weightman
Musicians
The Singing Tradition (Julie West, Martyn Briggs, Bob Lapworth, Mick Nash), vocals [1, 8];
Bob Lapworth,
concertina [1],
guitar [5];
John Swift, vocals [2-3, 7],
flat-backed lute [2-3, 7],
bastard lute [5],
guitar [11, 13-14];
John Rose, fiddle [3, 14];
Roy Palmer, vocals [4-6];
Martyn Briggs, vocals [5];
The Broken Consort
(Anne Crozier, concertina [6],
bowed psaltery [8];
Trevor Crozier, mouth organ [6],
pandora [8];
Vic Gammon, whistle [6],
concertina [8]);
Mike Herring, vocals [9-10];
Mick Steele, mandolin [9];
Paul Hipkiss, vocals [11, 13];
Julie West, vocals [12]
Tracks
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All tracks trad.