song : Maggie Holland piano: Huw Warren viola: Mark Emerson soprano sax: Mark Lockheart bass: Tim Harries diatonic accordion: Andy Cutting guitar: Martin Simpson
I cant stop watching this awsome wow my grandma would love this if she was alive she immagrated from Liverpool as a child with her parents 1898 :) RIP My British Grammy Lillian Sarah Rainer
a song of England , in the are auld times, Bragg would love this, Englishness is fine to be proud as is being Irish, or Scottish or Welsh. Uor commonalities are expressed through music like this
First time I listened through the whole thing (I didn't know about June and the comments put me off) and I loved it. The message is extremely positive. Common-wealth and common ground. If you haven't listened yet, don't be put off, and certainly check out more of this marvellous singer!
Ebenezerlan - well done! Hope you also make every effort to support British farmers/ producers as far as possible - they need all the help they can get.
Thanks for a note of sense, apples091. Just been catching up on previous replies to replies, which RU-vid does not notify to the video poster. Hope they were tongue in cheek.
A much meatier song in it's lyrical content than most of what passes through the Rock/Pop genre these days. At least it's polemic is presented straightforwardly for all to judge - just like folks songs used to be.. But what a shame that it should generate such poor a poor standard of debate contained in the comments thus far.
apples091: I don't know I would even call this 'folk' music - there is more jazz in the keyboard and fiddle work than Cecil Sharpe would have recognised in his orthodox and provincial notions of folk song. But nice song, well sung, and with a 'common-man' touch. Unlike the ghastly 'Roots' by Show of Hands which certainly is nationalistic, IMO.
The Maggie Holland original was much folkier; June Tabor has jazzed it up a bit. But folk-jazz crossover is hardly new; Pentangle and others were doing it in the 60s.
A lovely song, to be sure, although I'm slightly uncomfortable with some of the lyrics. England is as much her culture as it is the land and wildlife - more so, even. We ignore such things at our peril. And the irony of this song being hosted by the BBC is not lost on me, either. That once venerable institution has been entirely usurped by those who have no truck with notions of national sovereignty and pride in one's heritage. If it isn't obvious, it should be: we are on the brink; if we don't stand up soon, England, as a country worth defending, will be lost forever.
Yes. You think that warrants you to beg for money off the English? After saying how you want to break away and be alone? You can't even afford it. 'WE DONT WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH U ENGLISH NOW LEAVE US ALONE (Oh, by the way, can we borrow £1bn off you please because we need it) Funny, very funny! Weaksauce jock.
It's still negative about England. Negative about our great history, about our flag, and about landowners for some reason. We don't need this kind of negativity. We don't need a mix of love and hate, just the love itself.
There are plenty of things that are worth being negative about. Those who abuse, who lie, who stoke up hatred and take what should be common wealth to hoard for themselves. Those who would destroy what is beautiful, precious and irreplacible to create an immediate profit for themselves. Those who want us to hate our fellow humans because they born on the otherside of an imaginary line on the map, or because their skin is a different shade to ours or because they love the 'wrong' person or in the 'wrong' way. Our history is great, but that doesn't erase the dark parts, the destruction and the pain and suffering. Our flag is just a piece of cloth, no greater or worse than any other piece of cloth. As for landowners I believe the issue is more that the poor man is still outside the gate. inequality and unfairness is not something to love. Negativity, hate even is often needed... such is the paradox of tolerance.
