The Ram Club is an award-winning venue for Folk, Acoustic & Roots music, conveniently located just outside SW London in The Old Cranleighan Club, Thames Ditton, Surrey, UK. See below for more details. This channel aims to give you a taste of the sort of music we present, with films taken mostly at the club. We also have a playlist of upcoming artists to help persuade you to come, but we hope you'll trust our judgement in booking artists we think you'll love! Why not subscribe and be notified as soon as we put up new films? And if you can't come or live far away, it's the next best thing to being here! Please 'like' us on facebook too.
I mo thuarimse, tá guth binn aici, ach ní fhaigheann an t-imreoir ghiotar a dhóthain aitheantais atá tuillte aige. Cé hé sin? Fair play dhaoibh beirt araon!
Listen very carefully, if you aren't in tears by the end you need to listen again... Reminds me of a poem by my dad Ken Latheron Lines written about a member of the 'light' heavy gang, Cosel …… I entered through the factory gate And there a strange sight did espy Dressed in a mans old cast off clothes A little child scarce four feet high A large cloth cap fell round his ears The long coat sleeves concealed each hand While monstrous trousers hung in coils Making it difficult to stand I said unto a man close by Why is that child so poorly dressed Ah Sir, said he, he is a Pole Not to be treated like the rest As bit by bit I heard the tale How that child was bought for gold And that he slaved, was poorly fed And though so young appeared so old I handed him some chocolate His eyes with gratitude shone bright And as he left he turned and waved And sang and sang with all his might A sweeter voice I never heard It made me weep to feel that he Endowed with such a glorious gift Should be treated cruelly This song I heard in forty-one The memory of it lingers still Maybe the soloist is gone Secure now from pain and ill And yet I pray that I someday May hear again that voice so sweet 'Come Violetta'+ that refrain Be sung once more my ears to greet And still I see that little child That dear child so grotesquely dressed If he be dead then may the Lord In Heaven with thee find peace and rest For here on Earth he found no peace Father and mother both were slain And the poor child found no release But suffered o'er & o'er again He drank, he swore, he oft time stole For life for him was still his aim A little child scare nine years old A little Pole with ne'er a name "Verdi , Ah violetta"
Lovely to see that Lee is still playing. Remember seeing him often around the Bracknell area in the early '90's. Pretty sure that the last time I saw him was at Warwick Folk Festival. Really great act.
Lee is currently in a Punk Shanty band called The Salts! Check out this video with Lee's version of Song for Bowdoin, specially remastered from the vinyl. Lord Nelson 'Azores' voyage April 2012
have to say i first heard this when i was 12 ......28 years ago and still remember the words..(well most of them....why it hasnt been a hit... oh yeah i know why... 1 direction not sung it.... they seem to make anything a hit!!
I wrote to Steve about how beautiful this song is and how much it brought me joy when I was 20 (back in 2002). He wrote back to me saying that he hadn't played it for years and that resurrecting it would be like visiting an old friend. I like to think I had a part to play in him performing it again :)
