Dialect/street songs ect ..

[Quassia]

Are there any more sites like this that have recorded/ archived old street songs ect... I love to listen to dialect & the old songs kids sung on the streets years ago. http://sounds.bl.uk/V...12X0022XX-0300V0.xml#

[Bobbisox]

http://howaythelads.c...roduction/folk-songs/

I don't suppose you will understand these Quassia...lol
if you click on the titles in blue

[Quassia]

Oh brilliant! Thanks Bobbi .. just listening to 'When The Boat Comes In' :0)

[Bobbisox]

try Cushy Butterfield...lol

[Bobbisox]

Oh dear I have just listened to the you tube clip below in that link,,, so funny I think
but then I can understand him :-)

[Quassia]

Lol! Funny to hear kids singing she's a big lass & a bonny lass & she likes her beer!!

[Bobbisox]

I know :-)

[Quassia]

Found this you tube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DrGijdmBqU&feature=related

[Peter Pedant]

The Opies have written a lot aboutthis

[mike11111]

One of the more gruesome songs cheerfully sung by children concerned Mary Ann Cotton, hanged at Durham in 1873 for the mass murder of her husbands and children.

Mary Ann Cotton,
She's dead and she's rotten
She lies in her bed,
With her eyes wide open
Sing, sing, oh, what can I sing,
Mary Ann Cotton is tied up with string
Where, where? Up in the air
Sellin' black puddens a penny a pair.

[Quassia]

Peter, Opies?
mike, macabre .. but so very interesting that children were singing that in the 1800s. Love it, thank you!