The Kimberleys

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY Widely believed to be a trad folk song (is it Scottish, is it Irish? Jim thought it was from East Anglia), Charles...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY A doffing mistress was the woman in charge of a room of mill-workers; an early instance of health and safety...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY This song has, we've read, a strange provenance though the possibility that the melody may have been written by...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY An original song written by Isobel Kimberley, arranged by Jim Kimberley and released under the name of BRUISE on...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY In fact, an original song written in 1968 by New Zealander Paul Metsers, but a fully fledged part of the folk...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY The earliest version of The Begging Song, or A-Begging I Will Go, was printed on a black-letter broadside (a...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY Historically, the song has been referred to in Irish folklore and, since the late sixteenth century, it has been...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY Written by Matt McGinn (1928-1977) this feels like a love song, written to the beautiful border country of...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY Eleanor De Montfort was a political pawn for most of her life, niece of Henry III and Richard I, she fled to...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY Popularly known as a Sea Shanty, the land-variant, which Cecil Sharp found as a part of the hobby-horse drama in...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY A 1647 colony in the Bahamas included a Welshman named John Bethel. The folk ballad of his crew is believed to...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY "All Around my Hat" (Roud 567 and 22518, Laws P31) is of nineteenth-century English origin. In an early version,...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY "The Streets of Laredo" is a classic Cowboy Ballad, a dying cowboy tells his tale and the final chorus sees us all...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY Cecil Sharp noted a version of The Handsome Cabin Boy in 1905, a fine old song which Isobel first heard sung by...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY "Down in Yon Forest" or "The Bells of Paradise" is a traditional English Christmas carol dating to the Renaissance...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY Bonnie James Campbell or Bonnie George Campbell is Child ballad 210 (Roud 338). The ballad tells of a man who has...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY (Child 113) In this song of love and transformation a selkie (part seal part man) takes human form, woos a...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY Scottish born, Australian folk singer Harry Robertson wrote The Ballina Whalers in 1970 and Nic Jones recorded...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY We haven't been able to find out much about this wonderful, rollicking song. We found The MacCalman version on a...

SONGS FROM THE BALCONY Written in 1895 by Banjo Patterson, Waltzing Matilda is possibly the most famous Bush Ballad. With a smattering of...