Recorded at The Meeting House, Frenchay near Bristol 1975;
Recorded and produced by Gef Lucena (Saydisc) and David Wilkins (Valley Recordings);
Sleeve design by Plastic Dog Graphics

Musicians

Sam Richards: vocals, whistle, field organ, percussion;
Tish Stubbs: vocals, field organ, percussion;
Paul Wilson: vocals, guitar, lute, banjo, percussion

Tracks

Side 1

1. Tom Barbary (Roud 64; Child 100; G/D 5:999; Henry H221) (4.24)
2. The Bold Construction Men (3.07)
3. Eynsham Poaching Song (Roud 1268) (1.28)
4. Request of the Poor (Roud V23308) (2.56)
5. The Farmer in Leicester (Roud 2638; Laws L2) (2.01)
6. My Lady’s Coach (3.45)

Side 2

7. Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship (Roud 36; Child 46; G/D 4:842; Henry H681) (2.51)
8. Jacky My Son (Roud 10; Child 12; G/D 2:209; Henry H814) (3.35)
9. My Master and I (3.17)
10. The Travellers Came to Redbridge (2.17)
11. Woman’s Work Is Never Done (Roud 1717) (3.32)
12. Wheal Rodney (Roud 3316) (2.12)
13. We Don’t Want to Live Like That (1.40)

All tracks trad. arr. Staverton Bridge except
Track 2 John Faulkner;
Track 3 words trad., music Sam Richards;
Track 4 words trad., music Paul Wilson;
Track 10 Dick Snell, Critics Group;
Track 13 Ewan MacColl

Recorded at The Meeting House, Frenchay, near Bristol, in 1977;
Recorded and produced by Gef Lucena (Saydisc) and David Wilkins (Valley Recordings);
Cover design by Martin Scragg

Musicians

Tish Stubbs, Sam Richards: vocals, whistle, guitar, drum, accordion, mouth organ, Anglo concertina, spoons, Appalachian dulcimer, portable harmonium

Tracks

Side 1

1. An Invitation to North America (Roud V7333) (3.24)
2. Callerforney (Roud 3471) (3.22)
3. The Balaena (Roud 285) (3.09)
4. Betsy the Servingmaid (Roud 156; Laws M20; G/D 6:1094) (4.15)
5. Canadee-I-O (Roud 309; Henry H162) (2.26)
6. The Bold Princess Royal (Roud 528; Laws K29; G/D 1:47) (2.38)
7. The Drifter (2.58)

Side 2

8. Have Over the Water to Florida (Roud B40609) (2.08)
9. When That I Was Weary (Roud V35791) (3.30)
10. New York Gals (Roud 486) (3.11)
11. Paul Jones (Roud 967; Laws A4) (3.41)
12. Wolfe and Saunders (Roud V857) (3.29)
13. I Wish That the Wars Were All Over (Roud 2036) (3.20)
14. The Banks of Newfoundland (Roud 1812; Laws K25) (4.03)

All tracks trad. except
Track 7 G. Burdon, Throckley, Newcaslte, 1969

Songs

The songs are referenced by page numbers.

Celebration

10. We Poor Labouring Men (Roud 1394)
11. Lace Makers’ Song (Roud 3453)
12. Littlehampton Collier Lads (Roud 18836)
13. The Bermondsey Boys
14. The Dying Airman (Roud 3454)
15. The Soldier on the Battlefield (Roud 3304)
16. The Factory Doll (Roud 3470)
17. I Mounted My Neddy (Roud 1045)
18. Harvest Song (Roud 310)
19. The Dole Boye
20. From Sweet Dundee (Roud 613)
21. The Rakish Young Fellow (Roud 829)

Songs About Work

27. The Months of the Year (Roud 1954)
28. The Big Hewer and the Little Marra [Dave Mountford, 1972]
29. Cod Banging (Roud 1747)
30. The Clayton Analine Song [Pete Smith, 1960s]
31. The Sheffield Grinders’ Song
32. They’re Closing Down the Pit I’ve Always Worked In [Bert Draycott, 1970]
33. Hopping Down in Kent (Roud 1715)
34. Still He Slumbered [Sam Richards, 1973]
35. Our Essex Camp (Roud 10781)
36. Rounding Cape Horn (Roud 4706; Henry H539)
37. Ditton Bay [source unknown, 1950s]
38. Chemical Workers’ Song [Ron Angel, 1964]
39. When That I Was Weary (Roud V37591)
40. The Lumper’s Life [Bill Meek, 1965]
41. Jackys Building Site [Martin Scragg, 1977]
43. To the Sheepshearing We Will Go (Roud 3455)
44. Steelman [Ron Angel, 1970]
45. Callerforney (Roud 3471)

Motion Songs

50. Trotting Song (Roud 23593)
50. ’Ware Out, Mother (Roud 2551)
51. A Handy Ship (Roud 814)
52. Dance to Thee Daddy (Roud 2439)
52. We Be (Roud 3472)
53. Left Left (Roud 10768)
54. Roll the Cotton Down (Roud 2627; G/D 1:3)
55. Diddling Song

Songs of Diversion

59. The Game of Football (Roud 1881)
60. Come, My Lads (Roud 1238)
61. Brian O’Flynn (Roud 294; Henry H480a; TYG 27)
62. The Forty Pound Car
64. Shepton Beauchamp Wassail Song—1 (Roud 209)
65. Shepton Beauchamp Wassail Song—2 (Roud 209)
66. The Leg of the Mallard (Roud 1517)
67. The Exmoor Ram (Roud 126; G/D 3:645; TYG 59)
68. Did You See My Man? (Roud 2105; G/D 7:1343)
68. Stevington May Carol (Roud 305)
69. Bless This House (Roud 24994)
70. All Through the Ale (Roud 475; G/D 3:580)
71. Very Good Song (Roud 23609)
72. Ladies Won’t You Marry? (Roud 3456)
73. Ode to the R.A.F. (Roud 10755)
74. Poor Old Horse (Roud 513; TYG 60)
75. The Old Herring’s Head (Roud 128; TYG 31)

Outwitting Songs

80. The Pear Tree (Roud 1713; TYG 38)
82. The Broomfield Hill (Roud 34; Child 43; G/D 2:322; Henry H135)
84. Young Maidenhead (Roud 3451)
85. The Old Woman in Yorkshire (Roud 183; Laws Q2; G/D 2:318; Henry H174; TYG 6)
86. The Farmer in Leicester (Roud 2638; Laws L2)
87. The Penny Wager (Roud 393)
88. The Robbers (Box on Her Head) (Roud 289; Laws L3; G/D 2:268)

Lovers

92. I Wish That the Wars Were All Over (Roud 2036)
93. The Pretty Factory Boy (Roud 186; Laws M24; G/D 1:170; Henry H105)
94. Strawberry Town (Roud 18; Laws M32)
96. A Sailor By My Right (Roud 568; Laws P34; G/D 2:341)
98. As I Was Out A-Walking (Roud 564; Laws P18; G/D 6:1188)
100. The Little Back Parlour (Roud 1442)
101. The ‘Nightingale’ (Roud 1093; Laws M37; G/D 1:18; Henry H75a)
102. The Unquiet Grave (Roud 51; Child 78)
103. Seventeen Come Sunday (Roud 277; Laws O17; G/D 4:791; Henry H152, H793)
104. Mowing the Barley (Roud 922)
106. Evening Love Song [Sam Richards, 1978]
107. The Game of All Fours (Roud 232)
108. The Banks of the Tyne (Roud 2609)
109. The Old Miser (Roud 3913)
110. Through Lonesome Woods (Roud 3461)
111. The Navvie Man (Roud 360; Henry H760)
112. Freddie Mathews [Ron Elliott, 1973]
113. Young Ramble-Away (Roud 171; G/D 7:1485)
114. Forty Miles (Roud 608; G/D 5:983; TYG 36)
115. Nancy From London (Roud 407)
116. The Prentice Boy (Roud 263; Laws P35; G/D 2:200)
117. The Knife in the Window (Roud 32572)
118. Kissing (Roud 3458)

Marriage

123. Kecketty Pecketty (Roud 3459)
123. Nice Young Maidens (Roud 2591)
125. The Drunken Man (Roud 3460)
126. Joan to Jan (Roud 313)
127. I’ll Be No Submissive Wife (Roud V11445)
128. Go From My Windows (Roud 966)
130. Never Marry an Old Man (Roud 210)
132. The Poor Old Couple (Roud 491)
133. A Collier Lad (Roud 3462)
134. Timothy Briggs the Barber (Roud 1508)
135. The Gypsy Laddie (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124)
137. Nothing Between Us Now [John Pole, 1977]

Bawdy Songs

142. The Crabfish (Roud 149)
143. Th’ Owd Chap Come ower t’ Bank (Roud 114; Child 274; G/D 7:1460; Henry H21ab)
144. The Tailor’s Breeches (Roud 1610; TYG 49)
146. Cottage for Sale (Roud 3463)
147. Cock-a-Doodle-Doo (Roud 3464)
148. The Buxom Dairy Maid (Roud 12570)
149. Just an Old Fashioned Push Bike (Roud 29738)

Children’s Songs

152. Down Marsh Lane
152. Molly Riley (Roud 30980)
153. Three Popeye Rhymes (Roud 13511)
153. Do Ye Know My Father?
154. B I Buy
154. Bugs Are Bigger Than Fleas
154. Jingle Bells
155. Guy Fawkes Song (Roud 16916)
155. Batman and Robin

Historical Events

159. The ‘Margaret’ and the ‘Mary’ (Roud 2464)
159. The ‘Quaker’ (Roud 3093)
160. Paul Jones (Roud 967; Laws A4)
161. The Meeting at Peterloo (Roud V17536)
162. Wolfe and Saunders (Roud V857)
163. Admiral Nelson [source unknown]
165. The Bold ‘Richard’ (Roud 1351)
166. George Keary (Roud 529; Laws K31)
167. The ‘Elwood Mead’ [Sam Richards, 1974]
168. The Trico Strike [Sam Richards, 1977]

Comment and Polemic

173. The Mare and the Foal (Roud 1477)
174. Strike for Better Wages (Roud 3465)
175. Bye Bye Blackleg
176. A Bottle of Good Rum (Roud V9229)
177. See It Come Down [John Pole, 1974]
178. The Chartist Song (Roud V28520)
179. Time to Be Moving On [Sam Richards, 1977]
180. The Great Unpaid [Howard Evans, 1874 or earlier]
182. The Honest Ploughman (Roud 619)
183. Drinking (Roud 3466)
184. Early One Evening [Miles Wootton, 1974]
185. Who’s Who [John Brunner, 1965]
186. John Wesley (Roud 3467)
187. The Lofthouse Colliery Disaster [Sam Richards, 1973]
188. Oh Dear What’ll Become of Us?
189. Canteen Tea [Allan Lavercombe, 1975]

Authority

194. Van Diemen’s Land (Roud 221)
196. Robin Hood and the Old Beggar Man (Roud 71; Child 140; G/D 2:243)
198. Botany Bay (Roud 261; Laws L16; G/D 2:260; Henry H691, H202)
200. Poacher’s Song (Roud 2646)
200. Tea-Leaf Song [Colin Meadows, c.1971]
201. The Borstal Boy
202. Bold Archer (Roud 83; Child 188; G/D 2:244)
203. The Hearty Poacher (Roud 363)
204. Captain Grant (Roud 1286)
206. Robin Hood and the Pedlar (Roud 333; Child 132)
207. Taunton Gaol (Roud 3469)
209. Australia (Roud 1488)
210. There Goes a Man (Roud 1355)
211. The Deserter (Roud 493; G/D 1:83)
212. Babylon (Roud 27; Child 14; G/D 2:199)
214. Mr Fox [John Pole, 1964]
216. Punch and Judy [John Pole, 1970]
218. King Kong [Sam Richards, 1977]

Recorded by Nigel Pegrum and the Plant Life Mbile;
Produced by John Briley

Musicians

Sam Richards, Tish Stubbs: vocals, dulcimer, concertina, guitar, mouthorgan, whistles, harmonium, autoharp, percussion

LP Tracks

Side 1

1. We Poor Labouring Men (Roud 1394)
2. An Old Man He Courted Me (Roud 210)
3. The Game of Football (Roud 1881)
4. See It Come Down
5. Hopping Down in Kent (Roud 1715)
6. The Dying Airman (Roud 3454)
7. The Sheffield Grinders Song
8. Punch and Judy

Side 2

9. Diddling: Diddling Song / ’Ware Out Mother (Roud 2551)
10. Jackie’s Building Site
11. The Drunken Man (Roud 3460)
12. Bold Archer (Roud 83; Child 188; G/D 2:244)
13. Still He Slumbered
14. Cottage for Sale (Roud 3463)
15. Time to Be Moving On
16. The Shepton Beauchamp Wassail Song (Roud 209)

All tracks trad. except
Tracks 4, 8 John Pole;
Track 10 Martin Scragg;
Tracks 13, 15 Sam Richards

Recorded by Paul Adams in Workington, Cumbria in September 1985;
Mick Green’s saxophones recorded at Daylight Studios, Honiton, Devon;
Produced by Paul Adams;
Photography by Sam Richards, Linda Lambourne, Tish Stubbs;
Cover concept by Sam Richards and Lewis Riley;
Layout and artwork by Mary Blood

Musicians

Tish Stubbs: vocals, piano accordion, guitar, synthesiser, autoharp, maracas;
Sam Richards: vocals, synthesiser, electric and acoustic pianos, harmonium, Appalachian dulcimer, guitar;
Lewis Riley: tabla, electric bass, chorus vocals

with
Steve Verge: guitar, mandolin, chorus vocals;
Mick Green: soprano and tenor saxophones

Tracks

Side 1

1. Margo the Mighty Magician (5.22)
2. Carnival Song (4.08)
3. Drunkards and Lovers (3.44)
4. I Wish You’d Squeeze Me … (Like You Squeeze Your Squeezebox) (2.18)
5. Midnight (3.45)
6. All Comes Round Again (4.36)

Side 2

7. Money Come the Hard Way Easy Go (4.42)
8. Derek’s Hotel (5.04)
9. When the Circus Comes to Town (3.58)
10. Moving On Out Pierre (3.07)
11. The Unknown Soldier (2.56)
12. Fragments of a World (4.05)

All tracks written by Sam Richards except
Tracks 3, 6, 11 Sam Richards, Lewis Riley;
Track 2 tune Dutch carnival melody