Devon Songs
32 videos • 4,913 views • by Alan Rosevear
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Dead Dog Cider - Trevor Crozier's ode to Devon's special brew
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Twas on one April Morning - a Springtime folk song from Exeter
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Draggle Tailed gypsies - a lady runs to freedom, but with bitter consequences
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Monday Morning - a mournful song by Cyril Tawney for the morning after a few drinks
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Duke of Marlborough - Lord Marlborough, a son of Devon
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The True Uncle Tom Cobley - Widecombe Fair from Belstone
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The Cuckoo she's a pretty bird; lovers are not to be trusted
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Jolly Sportsman or Young Maidenhead - a crafty maiden and a foolish knight
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Oxenploughing - a song celebrating the old way of ploughing in the West of England
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Five Foot Flirt - A Tawney song of a country boy in love
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Pretty Nancy of Weymouth - Devon version of a sailor's song of Yarmouth song
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Tyburn Hill - singing the fate of Lank Hall (or Sam Hall)
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Grey Funnel Line - a Naval song written by Cyril Tawney
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Sparkling cyder for me - a cider song from Devon
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Streams of Nantsian - Cornish version of the song, Streams of Lovely Nancy
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All around my hat - Devon version of the song, I will wear the green willow
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Strawberry Fair - a song sanitised by the Victorians but now part wild
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Golden Vanity - a song of betrayal on board ship
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Eddystone Light - nautical fun in an amusing old folk song
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Sally Free and Easy - a sad sailor's song from Cyril Tawney
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Captain Ward the pirate - a defiant rover of the seas challenged by The Rainbow
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Oggie Man - Cyril Tawney's lament at loss of love and pasty sellers.wmv
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23
Time to Remember the Poor - a charity plea
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Botany Bay - song of a man born in Exeter
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25
Fathom the Bowl - a Devon drinking song
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Bellringers - a Devon song celebrating the ringers from North Lew
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Tythe Pig (Tithe Pig) - poking fun at authority and the inequity of the tithe system
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28
John Barleycorn - a ri fol day chorus for a very English Harvest song
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29
The Devil and the Farmer's Wife; whistling up the Devil to Lily Bulero
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30
Come me lads - a joyful song in good Devon company
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31
The Lark in the Morning - a Devon folk song
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Widecombe Fair - Uncle Tom Cobley folk song - a Devon yarn.wmv
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