Another pleasant and delightful evening spent in song at The John Harvey Tavern. Fourteen of us worked through most of the songs from the Firle Garden Show set list except for Brisk Young Ploughboy, Country Life, West Sussex Drinking Song and Ale, Glorious Ale which we had run through last month.
So the evening consisted of A Smuggler’s Song, The Turmut Hoer, Green Grow The Laurel, The Bee Boy’s Song, Twanky Dillo, Hares on the Mountain, Song of The Sussex Downsman, The Magpie, Oak, Ash and Thorn, Rosebuds in June, On Sussex Hills, Pleasant and Delightful, Fathom the Bowl and The Nightingale, but Tina also introduced us to the Copper’s song Birds in The Spring which she sang and explained the two minor changes that she, Emily and David had agreed.
During the second half of the evening Tina also sang The Turtle Dove which was collected from the landlord of The Plough Inn at Rusper and now is part of the Belloc, Broadwood and Beyond workshops list. We did well to learn the tune and the words without written sheets and it shouldn’t take long for the whole group to master and include The Turtle Dove in our performance repertoire. We aired Jolly Good Song with its before-the-watershed words and its final Golier for the benefit of our newest recruits and then finished with Thousands Or More.
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