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Leafield Lass

Leafield Lass Freda Palmer (1908-1991) Musical Traditions Records MTCD375/6 (2 CD, UK, 13 March 2018)

Booklet Notes by Rod Stradling

Musicians

Freda Palmer: vocals

Tracks

CD 1

1. Up in the North (Roud 582; Laws P3; G/D 4:895) (3.00)
2. Daughter of Shame (Roud 27914) (3.20)
3. A Miner’s Dream of Home (Roud 1749) (3.57)
4. Eighteen Pence (Roud 2798) (2.57)
5. The Fox and Grey Goose (Roud 131; G/D 3:499; Henry H38) (1.51)
6. Home Sweet Home (Roud 13449) (2.35)
7. Old King Cole (Roud 1164; G/D 8:1710) (5.27)
8. Oh, What Has Changed You? (Roud 23269) (3.50)
9. One of Our Streets (Roud 1407) (2.12)
10. Put a Bit of Powder on it, Father (Roud 10671) (1.27)
11. The Week Before Easter (Roud 154; G/D 6:1198) (1.26)
12. Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken (Roud 26913) (0.27)
13. Break the News to Mother (Roud 4322) (3.10)
14. Billy Brown (Roud 3354; TYG 43) (1.39)
15. A Little Bird Built a Warm Nest in a Tree (Roud 13706) (1.54)
16. The Mistletoe Bough (Roud 2336) (4.10)
17. I Parted My Hair in the Middle (Roud 27917) (4.46)
18. Sweet Teddy O’Neill (Roud 5207) (2.13)
19. A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go (Roud 16; G/D 8:1669) (2.22)
20. As I Was a-Walking (An S-O-N-G) (Roud 965) (1.39)
21. Father’s Got a Job (Roud 13704) (0.30)
22. The Titanic (Roud 27918) (3.23)
23. The Wandering Girl (Roud 1691) (1.29)
24. If Those Lips (Roud 27915) (parody) (1.05)
25. The Dumb Maid (Roud 434; Laws Q5; G/D 6:1289) (2.53)

CD 2

1. The Banks of the Sweet Dundee (Roud 148; Laws M25; G/D 2:224) (1.44)
2. I Wish I Was Single Again (Roud 437) (2.42)
3. The Little Cock Sparrow (Roud 3368) (1.03)
4. Young Folks Old Folks Everybody Come (Roud 4614) (2.10)
5. There Were Three Jews from Jerusalem (Roud 3708) (2.25)
6. After the Ball (Roud 4859) (4.18)
7. Old Johnny Bigger (Roud 19111) (1.22)
8. The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington (Roud 483; Child 105; G/D 1:168) (2.05)
9. Jack and the Squire (Roud 511; Laws K40) (0.49)
10. Villikins and Dinah (Roud 271; Laws M31A/B; G/D 2:211) (1.59)
11. The Little Shirt My Mother Made for Me (Roud 10437) (1.44)
12. I’m a Man That’s Done Wrong to My Parents (Roud 1386) (1.48)
13. 1, 2, 3, Mother Caught a Flea (Roud 19164) (0.16)
14. Your Faithful Sailor Boy (Roud 376; Laws K13; G/D 1:66; Henry H543, H678) (1.12)
15. Good Company (Roud 13680) (2.08)
16. What Did You Do in the Great War, Daddy? (Roud 27919) (2.07)
17. Needlecases (Roud 1300) (2.38)
18. A Group of Young Squaddies (Roud 1783) (0.38)
19. I’ll Sing of Martha (Roud 10560) (1.33)
20. Oxford City (Roud 218; Laws P30; G/D 2:210) (2.27)
21. The Ship that Never Returned (Roud 775; Laws D27) (0.55)
22. Maria Marten (Roud 18814) (3.03)
23. Old Mammy Mine (Roud 27916) (1.47)
24. The Ship I Love (Roud 17057) (2.04)
25. The Warwickshire RHA (Roud 163; TYG 32) (2.13)
26. William and Mary (Roud 348; Laws N28; G/D 5:1035; Henry H118) (1.35)

Recitations

27. Young Williams (Roud 13703) (4.43)
28. Hitler’s Dream (Roud 13705) (2.02)
29. Murphy’s Little Girl (Roud 27920) (6.43)
30. The Orphan Girl (Roud 24563) (4.20)
31. A Dialect Story (1.44)

CD 1 track 1; CD 2 track 9 recorded by Mike Yates, 15 October 1972;
CD 2 track 8 recorded by Mike Yates, 19 October 1972;
CD 1 track 5 recorded by Mike Yates, 1972;
CD 1 tracks 14, 20; CD 2 tracks 2, 22, 25-26 recorded by Mike Yates, 1974;
CD 1 tracks 2, 6-8, 10, 12, 17, 22, 24; CD 2 tracks 27, 30 recorded by Mike Yates, 1 May 1975;
CD 2 tracks 10, 31 recorded by Mike Yates, 1975;
CD 2 tracks 1, 5-6, 13, 16, 18, 23 recorded by Alison McMorland, summer 1975;
CD 1 tracks 4, 18, 21, 23, 25; CD 2 tracks 4, 15, 20 recorded by Alison McMorland, 1975;
CD 2 tracks 11, 29 recorded by Gwilym Davies, 30 November 1975;
CD 1 track 19; CD 2 tracks 17 recorded by Mike Yates, 10 June 1977;
CD 1 tracks 3, 13, 15-16; CD 2 tracks 3, 7, 19 recorded by Alison McMorland, 1978;
CD 2 tracks 12, 28 recorded by Steve Roud, 26 February 1978;
CD 1 tracks 11 recorded by Steve Roud, 27 February 1978;
CD 1 track 8; CD 2 tracks 14, 21, 24 recorded by Steve Roud, 1978;