![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of snails and hot harness I’ll give such talk, On the London and Brighton and South Eastern line Amongst this singing was a song that he describes as interminable with a "Toor-ri-li-oor-ri-li-aa" chorus - a countryman’s song denigrating Londoners and the big city types and putting one over on them (Roud 1744).ġ: I come from the country, me name it is Giles,Īnd I’ve travelled a hundred and twenty odd miles įor a simple old farmer I know I’ve been took,īut a ain’t such a fool as you think that I look.Ģ: Now I comes up be train and the journey was fine, The pub was bursting at the seams with what Beckett describes as a sort of rough agricultural types and poor farmers. A local author, Arthur Beckett, refers to the song in one of his books (Spirit of the Downs or Wonderful Weald) where he describes being in the pub in Sutton after there had been something like a farm sale. One of the places that used to hold singarounds was The White Horse at Sutton, tucked right underneath the Downs. Bob also recalls seeing the song in one of Arthur Beckett’s books, Spirit of the Downs or Wonderful Weald. Recorded at the Fife Traditional Singing Festival May 2009.īob remembers this as a regular party piece with a lot of the singers around the Midhurst area of Sussex and learned the song in its entirety from Cyril Phillips. Bob Lewis: On Autumn Harvest ah09: Bob Lewis: Drive Sorrows Away. ![]()
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