The Kimberleys

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY An exuberant romp through adultery, swordplay and death, this song exists in many textual variants and has several...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY This is a very old song dating back to the early Jacobite rebellions in Scotland. Names of birds feature once...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY There have been versions of this song collected from all over England, Gloucester, Herts, Shropshire, all over I...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY (Child 26) Also known as "Three Ravens," the crows sit in a tree discussing what they will eat for breakfast....

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY (Roud 975) This is an Irish narrative, the local landowner is in the pub buying drinks for all and generally...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY The Shoals of Herring (Roud 13642) is a ballad, written by Ewan MacColl for the third of the BBC Radio ballads...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY Or just as correctly "A Song Composed in August" by Robert Burns. Firmly set in an idyll of hunting and...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY We have had this song in our repertoire for so long I cannot remember who passed it on to us, which is a great...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY In 1907 Ralph Vaughn Williams collected this song from Christopher Jay of Norfolk. It's been found in other areas...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY Obviously a Christmas carol is just the ticket for a sunny April morning and we have chosen an absolute favourite...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY Tam Lin has been around for hundreds of years, stealing the heart / maidenhead of women who live on the Scottish...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY A three song medley, firstly "Erin-Go-Bragh", the story of a Highlander being mistaken for an Irishman whilst in...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY Child Ballad 13, this is a "Murder Ballad" or "Incest Ballad". A young man has made love to his sister then kills...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY In Rufford Park near Mansfield in 1850 there was a fierce clash between gamekeepers and locals. As far as I can...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY From the early 18th century originally, this song has spread all over the English speaking world. This version is...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY James Radclyffe, third Earl of Derwentwater backed James Stuart's cause in the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion....

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY Today we're in the porch (still on the balcony) as it's windy out and we were being buffeted about. Singing AJ...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY "Rosebud in June" was first recorded as part of a musical called The Custom of the Manor in 1715 and collected by...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY A gloriously irreverent Scottish folk song ladling criticism and innuendo on the House of Hanover, King George...