Notes

Songs from the BBC series fronted by Isla Sinclair, who sang the songs so well.

I would like to note that the songs themselves are not copyright and in the public domain, but the main text of the book is not. There is a fair amount of interesting background information, so it is really worth getting.

The Song and the Story, published by Pelham Books, 44 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DU. 1981 © Isla St.Clair & David Turnbull. (Originally priced £5.95)

Last checked, available on Amazon.

Contents:

Listed in the order in the book

• The Doffin Mistress
• The Female Highwayman
• Adieu Ye Streams
• Tramps And Hawkers?
• The Little Gypsy Girl
• Goodbye To The Thirty-foot Trailer
• The Yellow Handkerchief?
• A Smugglers Song
• Thornaby Woods?
• Bold Poachers
• Shooting Goshen's Cock-ups
• Keepers And Poachers
• Copshawholme Fair
• Nottingham Goose Fair
• Two Young Brethren?
• Husbandman And Servantman?
• Rosebud In June
• The Machiner's Song
• The Rest Of The Day's Your Own
• In Praise Of The Ploughman
• The Blacksmith
• Poverty Knock
• Shoals Of Herring
• Three Score And Ten?
• Lullin' The Littlin
• The Fisherman's Wife?
• Ship In Distress
• The Gallant Frigate Amphitrite
• The Weary Cutters?
• All Things Are Quite Silent
• Skewball
• The Curragh Of Kildare
• The Weaver And The Factory Maid?
• The Blackleg Miner
• Trinden Grange Explosion?
• The Bold English Navvy