Amazing.. I've known this song all my life since my mother was into folk music and had the the album but I've never known who wrote it (maybe I should of just asked). I searched a lot for it on Emule and other places years ago and never came up with anything and now it turns up here. Thanks so much for uploading.
Once heard, never forgotten. In mid-1976 the future Krzyszczynska and I attended a superb little show called "A Late Night" which featured Jeremy alongside Sydney Carter and Donald Swann. (A review in "Time Out" had said something along the lines of: "nothing edgy, just three civilised men having a good time together".) The theatre really hummed when they performed this number with full audience participation.
Great, thanks for posting these tracks rlukeball..........I saw Jeremy Taylor at Hitchin Folk Club (UK) in the 70's, I even purchased a vinyl LP with this track on it, Jeremy signed every copy he sold that night.
English folk clubs in pub back rooms were brilliant, a lot of famous names started out in them, great days, great memories.
Cheers
Jeremy Taylor writes:
Skipunk12's comment made me laugh. It's so typically bloody ME to turn up on the wrong day, let alone the wrong place or the wrong time. I'm quite capable of all three at once.
I am glad to know I behaved with grace and that the consequences were happy.
If I remember aright, my good old friend Noel Murphy was singing that night - and he WAS booked.
I could have written a history of the British Folk Revival from the '50's through to the '80's. It was a great time.
JT