English music

[BakersfieldChimp]

Vaughn Williams wrote a suite for Military Band based on folk tunes including a few of the submissions to this thread.
Lots of light-hearted fun if you are up for a game of "name that tune"

[Your Old Comrade]

"The World Turned Upside Down" is a traditional English ballad. It was first published on a broadside in 1646, as a protest against the policies of Parliament relating to the celebration of Christmas. Parliament believed the holiday should be a solemn occasion, and outlawed traditional English Christmas celebrations, which were seen as too closely associated with Catholicism. There are several versions of the lyrics. It is sung to the tune of a popular and contemporary English Royalist ballad, "When the king enjoys his own again".

Performed by Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band (Hang Up Sorrow and Care), 1995.

Americans will recognise the tune as the one played during the British surrender at Yorktown.

[Sorab12]

[Kess]

[BakersfieldChimp]

A concept album by Richard Thompson and Danny Thompson about an industrial town dying when the local industry dried up/




Oh, we're people not a mob
And we only wants a job
My sweetheart's on the barricade
We've had it up to here
Too numb to feel the fear
My sweetheart's on the barricade
My heart it skips a beat
There'll be fighting in the street
My sweetheart's on the barricade

[Creoda]

[Creoda]

Nostalgic Mark Knopfler tunes

[♥ Lily ♥]

[Your Old Comrade]

[Sorab12]

Something from my teenage years .Fast and melodic