@@passerineblue sorry, another stolen melody is "Lady Franklin's Lament" . The melody is a traditional Irish air called "Cailín Óg a Stór". They don't know who wrote the song but I suspect it was his wife Lady Franklin (Jane Griffin) who was a prolific writer that "never" published. She searched tirelessly for her husband - they say over 40 expeditions in her lifetime.
The melody is a traditional Irish air called "Cailín Óg a Stór" . I was taught this song in Ireland and never heard Rebourn sing this until recently. I'd like to add to his story, since I've read a bit about "Lord Franklin" that the "Lament" is from the point of view of his wife, Lady Franklin who continued searching for her husband, who is believed to have had Autism, Lord Franklin that is, not Lady Franklin. It's quite a story if you read about it. One day, I will go to Baffin's Bay and sing this song. Bob Dylan had nothing to do with this song other than maybe popularizing it ...I never knew Americans to know this song...but many people knew it in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s. I'm just glad Lady Franklin passed away before they knew the whole truth about his demise.
If you research the entire story, there was 3 years of food loaded for the exploration. He left out the details And who Lady Franklin was and did to find her husband's ship for decades
@@neilsaunders6009 Exactly. Nobody in a crowd of paying listeners, wants a factually correct history lesson. They want to be entertained. Factually, they had a lot of food, but it was in early forms of tin cans, sealed with lead which seeped into to the food inside, so when they ate it, they all got lead poisoning.
I suspect the song was written by Jane Griffin (Lady Franklin). She was a prolific writer. as for Neil's comment below...there's nothing wrong with investigating the facts of a story that is so interesting. Good for you. He left out many details...like it is believed that Lord Franklin was Autistic...that brings a whole new element to this song.
Bless John Renbourn. But that story goes to the kinds of broken telephones things people used to pick up on before internet times - entertaining though it was.
@@basedenjoyer157 He was serious. The man knew less than nothing about the subject and lied about it. Just the way you decided that he was joking even though it makes no sense.
Great song, brilliant version and funny intro. I do just have to be the killjoy though and step in a little on Franklin's side and say that his version of events is totally wrong. The ships were iced in for something like three years, fully stocked and that Franklin died of disease fairly early on. After perhaps four years of a desperate struggle to escape did some of the men...at the end of their will, resort to cannibalism. None of the crew were ever seen alive again. I'm sure your not here for a lecture, but I think the real story is actually more harrowing and makes the song even more moving in a way.
Also it seems that the canned meat wasn't processed properly which led to LEAD Poisoning to quiet a few crew members also , it seems the crew didn't expect such hardship and only a few had any real experience or attic conditions like those .
