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Bitter Ballads
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Bitter Ballads --- 1996-11-00
Ancient and modern poetry sung to medieval and traditional melodies Comes with 48 page booklet containing liner notes by Paul Hillier and lyrics of all ballads in English and in French. Contains ballads written by, amongst others, Jonathan Swift, William Blake, Charles Dickens, Bertolt Brecht, W.B.Yeats, Howard Skempton and Sappho.
Tracklist
Clever Tom Clinch Going To Be Hanged
The Roundhead
London Is A Fine Town
London
The Fine Old English Gentleman
The Great Testament
Highland Dance #1 (Harp Solo)
Kiltory
Highland Dance #2 (Harp Solo)
Shallow-Water Warning
Song For A Sea Tower
The Ballad Of Marie Farrar
Senza Licenza (Harp Solo)
Invention (Harp Solo)
Fine Flowers In The Valley
Sappho - Fragment
The Keel Row I (Harp Solo)
It Was Summer Now
The Keel Row II (Harp Solo)
Disillusionment
The Cockfight (Harp Solo)
Sailing To Byzantium
Brigg Fair (Harp Solo)
"Coda" From Briggflatts