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The Mournflag

2016-06-28T11:31:02Z

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[[Category: Music]]
[[Category: Marches Music]]
[[Category: The Marches]]

<ic>All across the Marches, and indeed the Empire, those who have set themselves to the task of taking back the Mournwold have taken to wearing the Mourn Flag, be it on their cap, on the breast of their tunic to wherever. Some wear the blossom, and some a badge cast of tin, or of welt-silver or green iron, as their prosperity allows.

The Mourn Flag ( or Miner's Mate) is a hardy flower that blooms year-round. It favours broken or disturbed ground, growing thick on old mine tailings, over graves, and on hillsides where there is runoff from a Green Iron vein that's broken the surface. Canny miners will look for beds of the flower, and follow them up-slope up the hill, and like as not they’ll find a spot worth mining.</ic>

Some sing it to the Marcher Hymn, "[http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/mournflag.mp3 Good Walder's Progress]" (music by Kathryn Wheeler), some to the old HighGuard Processional [[Virtues Anthem]]

Lyrics by Dan Towse

A recording of this song can be found [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/mournflag.mp3 here]

<song>
The Mourn Flag blooms when 'Wolder's work is done
Where Green Iron's mined or Miner's laid to rest.
And now the Marches' labour has begun,
We'll muster every virtue, give our best,

Refrain:
And if by chance we fall and come to lie
Beneath the Wold, there let the Mourn Flag fly.

To free the Mourn with blood and sweat and toil
And plough the Wold thrice o'er from March to Moor
Each Soldier, Farmer, Alderman, all loyal
Will give their all, though prosperous or poor.

Refrain

So pluck the Miners Mate and wear it's flower
All you who strive to break the Jotun's Hold
Till by our works and our collective power
The Marches Bounds are Beaten round Mournwold.

Refrain

</song>

The Mournflag

2016-06-28T11:30:43Z

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[[Category: Music]]
[[Category: Marches Music]]
[[Category: The Marches]]

<ic>All across the Marches, and indeed the Empire, those who have set themselves to the task of taking back the Mournwold have taken to wearing the Mourn Flag, be it on their cap, on the breast of their tunic to wherever. Some wear the blossom, and some a badge cast of tin, or of welt-silver or green iron, as their prosperity allows.

The Mourn Flag ( or Miner's Mate) is a hardy flower that blooms year-round. It favours broken or disturbed ground, growing thick on old mine tailings, over graves, and on hillsides where there is runoff from a Green Iron vein that's broken the surface. Canny miners will look for beds of the flower, and follow them up-slope up the hill, and like as not they’ll find a spot worth mining.</ic>

Some sing it to the Marcher Hymn, "[http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/mournflag.mp3 Good Walder's Progress]" (music by Kathryn Wheeler), some to the old HighGuard Processional *[[Virtues Anthem]]

Lyrics by Dan Towse

A recording of this song can be found [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/mournflag.mp3 here]

<song>
The Mourn Flag blooms when 'Wolder's work is done
Where Green Iron's mined or Miner's laid to rest.
And now the Marches' labour has begun,
We'll muster every virtue, give our best,

Refrain:
And if by chance we fall and come to lie
Beneath the Wold, there let the Mourn Flag fly.

To free the Mourn with blood and sweat and toil
And plough the Wold thrice o'er from March to Moor
Each Soldier, Farmer, Alderman, all loyal
Will give their all, though prosperous or poor.

Refrain

So pluck the Miners Mate and wear it's flower
All you who strive to break the Jotun's Hold
Till by our works and our collective power
The Marches Bounds are Beaten round Mournwold.

Refrain

</song>

The Mournflag

2016-06-28T11:28:39Z

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[[Category: Music]]
[[Category: Marches Music]]
[[Category: The Marches]]

<ic>All across the Marches, and indeed the Empire, those who have set themselves to the task of taking back the Mournwold have taken to wearing the Mourn Flag, be it on their cap, on the breast of their tunic to wherever. Some wear the blossom, and some a badge cast of tin, or of welt-silver or green iron, as their prosperity allows.

The Mourn Flag ( or Miner's Mate) is a hardy flower that blooms year-round. It favours broken or disturbed ground, growing thick on old mine tailings, over graves, and on hillsides where there is runoff from a Green Iron vein that's broken the surface. Canny miners will look for beds of the flower, and follow them up-slope up the hill, and like as not they’ll find a spot worth mining.</ic>

Some sing it to the Marcher Hymn, "[http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/mournflag.mp3 Good Walder's Progress]" (music by Kathryn Wheeler), some to the old HighGuard Processional ‘[http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/medi%20...%20anthem.mp3 The Virtues Anthem’]

Lyrics by Dan Towse

A recording of this song can be found [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/mournflag.mp3 here]

<song>
The Mourn Flag blooms when 'Wolder's work is done
Where Green Iron's mined or Miner's laid to rest.
And now the Marches' labour has begun,
We'll muster every virtue, give our best,

Refrain:
And if by chance we fall and come to lie
Beneath the Wold, there let the Mourn Flag fly.

To free the Mourn with blood and sweat and toil
And plough the Wold thrice o'er from March to Moor
Each Soldier, Farmer, Alderman, all loyal
Will give their all, though prosperous or poor.

Refrain

So pluck the Miners Mate and wear it's flower
All you who strive to break the Jotun's Hold
Till by our works and our collective power
The Marches Bounds are Beaten round Mournwold.

Refrain

</song>

The Marches music

2016-06-28T11:23:03Z

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==The music of The Marches==

===Style summary===
A capella harmony singing, no-nonsense, boisterous and earthy, simple folk and morality tales, minimal instrumentation, heavy rhythms on guitars or concertinas. Themes of working the land, agriculture and fishing, harvest, enjoyment of food and drink, recognition of obligation to the land and its people.

The music of the Marches is drawn primarily from the folk song traditions of Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire and Yorkshire: wassails, shanties, drinking songs, and work songs.

===Commonly known songs===

*[[Marcher battle song]], invariably sung before battle!
*[[Bringing in the Sheaves]], a harvest song (not the hymn), often sung for solidarity.
*[[Down to Earth]], a song about the importance of good earth and common sense to the Marchers!
* Many people in the Marches will know one version of a [[Wassail]]

===Musical traditions===
After every harvest, Marcher farmers perform a traditional ceremony, a [[Wassail]], to scare away evil spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the [[Marches Culture and Customs#Wassail|Marcher brief]].

In the Marches, misdeeds are sometimes rewarded with a public shaming using noise, music, even satirical performance of some kind, called [[Marches Culture and Customs#Rough Music|Rough Music]]. Some chants are known throughout the Marches such as those below (usually interspersed with verses detailing the misdeed), some songs/performances are written especially for the occasion!
* "Ran tan tan, raise your hand, a sin to us is a sin to the land"
* "Old Fred Thatcher (insert name of miscreant), we know your name, Old Fred Thatcher, you are to blame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your shame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your name!"

====Battle Songs====
* [[Marcher battle song]] easy song for marching into battle
* [[Rebel March]] easy song for upsetting the Dawnish (and battles)
* Yet another [[Marches Battle Song]]
* [[Marcher At My Side]] - easy song popular with soldiers in the Marcher armies

====Seasonal Songs====
====Autumn====
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[John Barleycorn]] medium folk song
* [[Wassail]] easy call and response, and lots of versions
*[[Harvest Time]] - song about the land and Britta's lost army
====Winter====
*[[Drive the Cold Winter Away]]

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Marcher Dirge]] - a bit heretical
*[[Turn the Circle]] - a song which can be sung as a round
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars
* [[Only Remembered For What We Have Done]] - medium harmony song
* [[Lay me Low]] - medium difficulty harmony song

====Songs from Mournwold====
* [[Mournwold Harvest]] - sad song about orphaned Mournwolders
* [[Jonah Gold]] - traditional miners song from Mournwold
*[[The Mournflag]] - a song inspiring the fight for the Mourn

====One for the kids====

* [[Whose Pigs Are These?]] a fun round
* [[Chants for naughty children]]

====Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches====
* [[Jack in the Green]] - a song about the [[Marches Egregore]]
* [[The Culloch Boar]] - tells of the origins of the Culloch banner

====More Songs====
*[[The Unquiet Grave]]
* [[Tom A'Bedlam's song]]
* [[Ye Mariners All]] - medium drinking song
* [[Here's A Health to the Company]] - easy drinking song
* [[His Banner's Not Mine]] - medium love song
* [[Pull Down Below]] - medium shanty with chunky harmonies
* One More Day - easy shanty: [http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/showlyric.php/onemore lyrics], [http://thealbionband.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-day tune]
* [[Ten Thousand Miles]] - love song with easy harmony accomp
* [[Pretty Ploughboy]] - easy song about saving the lad you love from the war
* [[Silent Giants]] - easy song about standing stones

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Songs are usually unaccompanied in the Marches, typically sung in raucous harmony rather than using instruments. However sometimes drums, accordions, guitars, fiddles, and whistles/recorders are used. For instrumental music, look to the very heavy rhythms of trad English music (the kind of tunes used to accompany morris dancing would be perfect).

* The Chicken Dance - dance tune often brought out at hen parties and other festivities, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Chook_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Chook_dance_faster.mp3 recording]
* The Bond Ring - dance tune for weddings and other bondings, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Bond_Ring_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Bondring.mp3 recording]

====Other performance traditions====
[[Marches Tales]]

===How to adapt your repertoire===
The Marches is all about people singing ''together'' so choose songs that have a chorus, or even better, a call and response line. Nothing wrong with a bard leading a song but try to encourage participation from the people around you, even if just banging their tankards off the table. Can you turn your song into a drinking song?! Think of some harmonies ahead of time and if possible teach them to your group instead of using instrumental accompaniment. Any folk song will be fine but especially those in the themes listed above. If you are mostly a solo performer perhaps learn a few easy rounds and sing them with people between your solo numbers.

===Our sources===
* Songs: Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Muldoon's Picnic; Fisherman's Friends; Chumbawamba (the folky stuff e.g. English Rebel Songs and ABCDEFG), and number of Welsh a capella choirs; all great acapella harmony singers. Seth Lakeman (sans guitar), June Tabor.
* Tunes: Florida, Eliza Carthy
* Great list of harvest themed songs: http://piereligion.org/harvestsongs.html
* Good list of sea shanty lyrics (stick to the very English sounding ones, preferably about fishing): http://www.boundingmain.com/Lyrics.htm
* Good list of sources for English folk suitable for the Marches: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoJyPBKHsU&list=PL28D4FF038B6F4D35&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]

Turn the Circle

2016-06-28T11:19:28Z

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[[Category: Marches Music]]
[[Category: The Marches]]

A song about the cycle of life and death which resonates very strongly with Marcher ways. Often sung contemplatively as a solo, but can also be sung as a round (see the first recording below for an example).

Music by Kathryn and lyrics by Jude

A recording of this song can be found [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/TurntheCircle.mp3 here] and [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/TurntheCircle_newer.mp3 here] and sheet music is available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Turn_the_Circle.pdf here]

<song>
Earth and dark holds seed and root
To the sun rise leaf and shoot
Rest shall follow all your toil
Turn the circle, turn the soil

Seeds that in the Spring were sown
In the autumn are full grown
Children grow to grooms and brides
Turn the circle, turn the tides

Fields that grow with barley high
In their turn must fallow lie
Wicker men to ashes burn
Turn the circle, turn the sun

Long days full of warmth and light
All must end with gentle night
Here's the wound no art can heal
Turn the circle, turn the wheel

Wounded, weary, sick and sore
Lay down now to rise no more
To the land that gave you birth
Turn the circle, turn the earth

</song>

The Marches music

2016-06-28T11:12:33Z

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==The music of The Marches==

===Style summary===
A capella harmony singing, no-nonsense, boisterous and earthy, simple folk and morality tales, minimal instrumentation, heavy rhythms on guitars or concertinas. Themes of working the land, agriculture and fishing, harvest, enjoyment of food and drink, recognition of obligation to the land and its people.

The music of the Marches is drawn primarily from the folk song traditions of Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire and Yorkshire: wassails, shanties, drinking songs, and work songs.

===Commonly known songs===

*[[Marcher battle song]], invariably sung before battle!
*[[Bringing in the Sheaves]], a harvest song (not the hymn), often sung for solidarity.
*[[Down to Earth]], a song about the importance of good earth and common sense to the Marchers!
* Many people in the Marches will know one version of a [[Wassail]]

===Musical traditions===
After every harvest, Marcher farmers perform a traditional ceremony, a [[Wassail]], to scare away evil spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the [[Marches Culture and Customs#Wassail|Marcher brief]].

In the Marches, misdeeds are sometimes rewarded with a public shaming using noise, music, even satirical performance of some kind, called [[Marches Culture and Customs#Rough Music|Rough Music]]. Some chants are known throughout the Marches such as those below (usually interspersed with verses detailing the misdeed), some songs/performances are written especially for the occasion!
* "Ran tan tan, raise your hand, a sin to us is a sin to the land"
* "Old Fred Thatcher (insert name of miscreant), we know your name, Old Fred Thatcher, you are to blame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your shame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your name!"

====Battle Songs====
* [[Marcher battle song]] easy song for marching into battle
* [[Rebel March]] easy song for upsetting the Dawnish (and battles)
* Yet another [[Marches Battle Song]]
* [[Marcher At My Side]] - easy song popular with soldiers in the Marcher armies

====Seasonal Songs====
====Autumn====
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[John Barleycorn]] medium folk song
* [[Wassail]] easy call and response, and lots of versions
*[[Harvest Time]] - song about the land and Britta's lost army
====Winter====
*[[Drive the Cold Winter Away]]

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Marcher Dirge]] - a bit heretical
*[[Turn the Circle]] - a song which can be sung as a round
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars
* [[Only Remembered For What We Have Done]] - medium harmony song
* [[Lay me Low]] - medium difficulty harmony song

====Songs from Mournwold====
* [[Mournwold Harvest]] - sad song about orphaned Mournwolders
* [[Jonah Gold]] - traditional miners song from Mournwold

====One for the kids====

* [[Whose Pigs Are These?]] a fun round
* [[Chants for naughty children]]

====Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches====
* [[Jack in the Green]] - a song about the [[Marches Egregore]]
* [[The Culloch Boar]] - tells of the origins of the Culloch banner

====More Songs====
*[[The Unquiet Grave]]
* [[Tom A'Bedlam's song]]
* [[Ye Mariners All]] - medium drinking song
* [[Here's A Health to the Company]] - easy drinking song
* [[His Banner's Not Mine]] - medium love song
* [[Pull Down Below]] - medium shanty with chunky harmonies
* One More Day - easy shanty: [http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/showlyric.php/onemore lyrics], [http://thealbionband.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-day tune]
* [[Ten Thousand Miles]] - love song with easy harmony accomp
* [[Pretty Ploughboy]] - easy song about saving the lad you love from the war
* [[Silent Giants]] - easy song about standing stones

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Songs are usually unaccompanied in the Marches, typically sung in raucous harmony rather than using instruments. However sometimes drums, accordions, guitars, fiddles, and whistles/recorders are used. For instrumental music, look to the very heavy rhythms of trad English music (the kind of tunes used to accompany morris dancing would be perfect).

* The Chicken Dance - dance tune often brought out at hen parties and other festivities, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Chook_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Chook_dance_faster.mp3 recording]
* The Bond Ring - dance tune for weddings and other bondings, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Bond_Ring_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Bondring.mp3 recording]

====Other performance traditions====
[[Marches Tales]]

===How to adapt your repertoire===
The Marches is all about people singing ''together'' so choose songs that have a chorus, or even better, a call and response line. Nothing wrong with a bard leading a song but try to encourage participation from the people around you, even if just banging their tankards off the table. Can you turn your song into a drinking song?! Think of some harmonies ahead of time and if possible teach them to your group instead of using instrumental accompaniment. Any folk song will be fine but especially those in the themes listed above. If you are mostly a solo performer perhaps learn a few easy rounds and sing them with people between your solo numbers.

===Our sources===
* Songs: Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Muldoon's Picnic; Fisherman's Friends; Chumbawamba (the folky stuff e.g. English Rebel Songs and ABCDEFG), and number of Welsh a capella choirs; all great acapella harmony singers. Seth Lakeman (sans guitar), June Tabor.
* Tunes: Florida, Eliza Carthy
* Great list of harvest themed songs: http://piereligion.org/harvestsongs.html
* Good list of sea shanty lyrics (stick to the very English sounding ones, preferably about fishing): http://www.boundingmain.com/Lyrics.htm
* Good list of sources for English folk suitable for the Marches: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoJyPBKHsU&list=PL28D4FF038B6F4D35&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]

The Marches music

2016-06-24T21:51:29Z

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==The music of The Marches==

===Style summary===
A capella harmony singing, no-nonsense, boisterous and earthy, simple folk and morality tales, minimal instrumentation, heavy rhythms on guitars or concertinas. Themes of working the land, agriculture and fishing, harvest, enjoyment of food and drink, recognition of obligation to the land and its people.

The music of the Marches is drawn primarily from the folk song traditions of Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire and Yorkshire: wassails, shanties, drinking songs, and work songs.

===Commonly known songs===

*[[Marcher battle song]], invariably sung before battle!
*[[Bringing in the Sheaves]], a harvest song (not the hymn), often sung for solidarity.
*[[Down to Earth]], a song about the importance of good earth and common sense to the Marchers!
* Many people in the Marches will know one version of a [[Wassail]]

===Musical traditions===
After every harvest, Marcher farmers perform a traditional ceremony, a [[Wassail]], to scare away evil spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the [[Marches Culture and Customs#Wassail|Marcher brief]].

In the Marches, misdeeds are sometimes rewarded with a public shaming using noise, music, even satirical performance of some kind, called [[Marches Culture and Customs#Rough Music|Rough Music]]. Some chants are known throughout the Marches such as those below (usually interspersed with verses detailing the misdeed), some songs/performances are written especially for the occasion!
* "Ran tan tan, raise your hand, a sin to us is a sin to the land"
* "Old Fred Thatcher (insert name of miscreant), we know your name, Old Fred Thatcher, you are to blame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your shame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your name!"

====Battle Songs====
* [[Marcher battle song]] easy song for marching into battle
* [[Rebel March]] easy song for upsetting the Dawnish (and battles)
* Yet another [[Marches Battle Song]]
* [[Marcher At My Side]] - easy song popular with soldiers in the Marcher armies

====Seasonal Songs====
====Autumn====
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[John Barleycorn]] medium folk song
* [[Wassail]] easy call and response, and lots of versions
*[[Harvest Time]] - song about the land and Britta's lost army
====Winter====
*[[Drive the Cold Winter Away]]

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Marcher Dirge]] - a bit heretical
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars
* [[Only Remembered For What We Have Done]] - medium harmony song
* [[Lay me Low]] - medium difficulty harmony song

====Songs from Mournwold====
* [[Mournwold Harvest]] - sad song about orphaned Mournwolders
* [[Jonah Gold]] - traditional miners song from Mournwold

====One for the kids====

* [[Whose Pigs Are These?]] a fun round
* [[Chants for naughty children]]

====Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches====
* [[Jack in the Green]] - a song about the [[Marches Egregore]]
* [[The Culloch Boar]] - tells of the origins of the Culloch banner

====More Songs====
*[[The Unquiet Grave]]
* [[Tom A'Bedlam's song]]
* [[Ye Mariners All]] - medium drinking song
* [[Here's A Health to the Company]] - easy drinking song
* [[His Banner's Not Mine]] - medium love song
* [[Pull Down Below]] - medium shanty with chunky harmonies
* One More Day - easy shanty: [http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/showlyric.php/onemore lyrics], [http://thealbionband.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-day tune]
* [[Ten Thousand Miles]] - love song with easy harmony accomp
* [[Pretty Ploughboy]] - easy song about saving the lad you love from the war
* [[Silent Giants]] - easy song about standing stones

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Songs are usually unaccompanied in the Marches, typically sung in raucous harmony rather than using instruments. However sometimes drums, accordions, guitars, fiddles, and whistles/recorders are used. For instrumental music, look to the very heavy rhythms of trad English music (the kind of tunes used to accompany morris dancing would be perfect).

* The Chicken Dance - dance tune often brought out at hen parties and other festivities, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Chook_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Chook_dance_faster.mp3 recording]
* The Bond Ring - dance tune for weddings and other bondings, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Bond_Ring_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Bondring.mp3 recording]

====Other performance traditions====
[[Marches Tales]]

===How to adapt your repertoire===
The Marches is all about people singing ''together'' so choose songs that have a chorus, or even better, a call and response line. Nothing wrong with a bard leading a song but try to encourage participation from the people around you, even if just banging their tankards off the table. Can you turn your song into a drinking song?! Think of some harmonies ahead of time and if possible teach them to your group instead of using instrumental accompaniment. Any folk song will be fine but especially those in the themes listed above. If you are mostly a solo performer perhaps learn a few easy rounds and sing them with people between your solo numbers.

===Our sources===
* Songs: Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Muldoon's Picnic; Fisherman's Friends; Chumbawamba (the folky stuff e.g. English Rebel Songs and ABCDEFG), and number of Welsh a capella choirs; all great acapella harmony singers. Seth Lakeman (sans guitar), June Tabor.
* Tunes: Florida, Eliza Carthy
* Great list of harvest themed songs: http://piereligion.org/harvestsongs.html
* Good list of sea shanty lyrics (stick to the very English sounding ones, preferably about fishing): http://www.boundingmain.com/Lyrics.htm
* Good list of sources for English folk suitable for the Marches: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoJyPBKHsU&list=PL28D4FF038B6F4D35&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]

Down to Earth

2016-06-24T21:50:31Z

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[[Category: Music]]
[[Category: Marches Music]]
[[Category: The Marches]]

<ic>In praise of the fine qualities of the earth and good honest common sense! This song - which contains a good few mud-related sayings - was originally written by Kit the Mummer for a ritual to fortify the swamps of Bregasland, and has since become a general Marcher anthem!</ic>

Music and lyrics by Kathryn Wheeler.

A recording of this song can be found [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/DowntoEarth.mp3 here]

<song>
The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend
Though you may laugh, its true
Whilst you think mud is “filthy”, well
We take a different view

And when the day is o..ver
We’ll drink a glass or more,
to Marcher mud - its in our blood,
Ingrained in every pore

Chorus:
We’re down to earth, down and dirty
Down and dirty, down and dirty
Down to earth, down and dirty
Digging for victory x2

We scorn polite society
To cultivate its loyalty
And though you think it unrefined
We treat it just like royalty

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus

We strive to treat the mud with care
With lots of muck and tilling
And it repays us thousandfold -
That’s why its so fulfilling

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus

The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend
So cross us if you dare
For it shall heed our call to war!
Intruders best beware……

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus
</song>

Lyrics and music by Kathryn Wheeler

Down to Earth

2016-06-24T21:49:38Z

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Down to Earth

2016-06-24T21:48:27Z

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[[Category: Music]]
[[Category: Marches Music]]
[[Category: The Marches]]

<ic>In praise of the fine qualities of the earth and common sense, which contains just about every mud-related Marcher saying known! This song was originally written by Kit the Mummer for a ritual to fortify the swamps of Bregasland, and has since become a general Marcher anthem!</ic>

Music and lyrics by Kathryn Wheeler.

A recording of this song can be found [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/DowntoEarth.mp3 here]

<song>
The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend
Though you may laugh, its true
Whilst you think mud is “filthy”, well
We take a different view

And when the day is o..ver
We’ll drink a glass or more,
to Marcher mud - its in our blood,
Ingrained in every pore

Chorus:
We’re down to earth, down and dirty
Down and dirty, down and dirty
Down to earth, down and dirty
Digging for victory x2

We scorn polite society
To cultivate its loyalty
And though you think it unrefined
We treat it just like royalty

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus

We strive to treat the mud with care
With lots of muck and tilling
And it repays us thousandfold -
That’s why its so fulfilling

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus

The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend
So cross us if you dare
For it shall heed our call to war!
Intruders best beware……

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus
</song>

Lyrics and music by Kathryn Wheeler

Drive the Cold Winter Away

2016-06-24T21:47:05Z

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These extremely Marcher verses are taken from a much longer traditional English song " A Pleasant Countrey New Ditty: Merrily Shewing How to Drive the Cold Winter Away", from the Roxburghe Ballads, a collection of 17th century songs. The full version is available [http://www.lukehistory.com/ballads/drvcold.html here] Kathryn has added in a simple chorus, as Marchers do love a good singalong!

A recording of this song can be found [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/DriveTheColdWinter.mp3 here] and sheet music is available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/DriveTheColdWinter.pdf here]

<song>
This time of the year is spent in good cheer,
And neighbours together do meet
To sit by the fire, with friendly desire,
Each other in love to greet;
Old grudges forgot are put in the pot,
All sorrows aside they lay;
The old and the young doth carol this song
To drive the cold winter away.

Chorus:
To drive the cold winter away, away
To drive the cold winter away
The old and the young doth carol this song
To drive the cold winter away.

To mask and to mum kind neighbours will come
With wassails of hot brown ale,
To drink and carouse to all in the house
As merry as bucks in the dale;
Where cake, bread, and cheese is brought for your fees
To make you the longer stay;
At the fire to warm 'twill do you no harm,
To drive the cold winter away.

Chorus

When white-bearded frost hath threatened its worst,
And fallen from branch and briar,
Then time away calls from husbandry halls
And from the good countryman's fire,
Together to go, to plough and to sow
To get us both food and array,
And thus will content the time we have spent
To drive the cold winter away

Chorus
</song>

Drive the Cold Winter Away

2016-06-24T21:46:03Z

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[[Category: The Marches]]

These extremely Marcher verses are taken from a much longer traditional English song " A Pleasant Countrey New Ditty: Merrily Shewing How to Drive the Cold Winter Away", from the Roxburghe Ballads, a collection of 17th century songs. The full version is available [http://www.lukehistory.com/ballads/drvcold.html here]

A recording of this song can be found [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/DriveTheColdWinter.mp3 here] and sheet music is available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/DriveTheColdWinter.pdf here]

<song>
This time of the year is spent in good cheer,
And neighbours together do meet
To sit by the fire, with friendly desire,
Each other in love to greet;
Old grudges forgot are put in the pot,
All sorrows aside they lay;
The old and the young doth carol this song
To drive the cold winter away.

Chorus:
To drive the cold winter away, away
To drive the cold winter away
The old and the young doth carol this song
To drive the cold winter away.

To mask and to mum kind neighbours will come
With wassails of hot brown ale,
To drink and carouse to all in the house
As merry as bucks in the dale;
Where cake, bread, and cheese is brought for your fees
To make you the longer stay;
At the fire to warm 'twill do you no harm,
To drive the cold winter away.

Chorus

When white-bearded frost hath threatened its worst,
And fallen from branch and briar,
Then time away calls from husbandry halls
And from the good countryman's fire,
Together to go, to plough and to sow
To get us both food and array,
And thus will content the time we have spent
To drive the cold winter away

Chorus
</song>

The Marches music

2016-06-24T21:36:43Z

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==The music of The Marches==

===Style summary===
A capella harmony singing, no-nonsense, boisterous and earthy, simple folk and morality tales, minimal instrumentation, heavy rhythms on guitars, bouzoukis or concertinas. Themes of working the land, agriculture and fishing, harvest, enjoyment of food and drink, recognition of obligation to the land and its people.

The music of the Marches is drawn primarily from the folk song traditions of Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire and Yorkshire: wassails, shanties, drinking songs, and work songs.

===Commonly known songs===

*[[Marcher battle song]], invariably sung before battle!
*[[Bringing in the Sheaves]], a harvest song (not the hymn), often sung for solidarity.
*[[Down to Earth]], a song about the importance of good earth and common sense to the Marchers!
* Many people in the Marches will know one version of a [[Wassail]]

===Musical traditions===
After every harvest, Marcher farmers perform a traditional ceremony, a [[Wassail]], to scare away evil spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the [[Marches Culture and Customs#Wassail|Marcher brief]].

In the Marches, misdeeds are sometimes rewarded with a public shaming using noise, music, even satirical performance of some kind, called [[Marches Culture and Customs#Rough Music|Rough Music]]. Some chants are known throughout the Marches such as those below (usually interspersed with verses detailing the misdeed), some songs/performances are written especially for the occasion!
* "Ran tan tan, raise your hand, a sin to us is a sin to the land"
* "Old Fred Thatcher (insert name of miscreant), we know your name, Old Fred Thatcher, you are to blame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your shame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your name!"

====Battle Songs====
* [[Marcher battle song]] easy song for marching into battle
* [[Rebel March]] easy song for upsetting the Dawnish (and battles)
* Yet another [[Marches Battle Song]]
* [[Marcher At My Side]] - easy song popular with soldiers in the Marcher armies

====Seasonal Songs====
====Autumn====
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[John Barleycorn]] medium folk song
* [[Wassail]] easy call and response, and lots of versions
*[[Harvest Time]] - song about the land and Britta's lost army
====Winter====
*[[Drive the Cold Winter Away]]

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Marcher Dirge]] - a bit heretical
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars
* [[Only Remembered For What We Have Done]] - medium harmony song
* [[Lay me Low]] - medium difficulty harmony song

====Songs from Mournwold====
* [[Mournwold Harvest]] - sad song about orphaned Mournwolders
* [[Jonah Gold]] - traditional miners song from Mournwold

====One for the kids====

* [[Whose Pigs Are These?]] a fun round
* [[Chants for naughty children]]

====Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches====
* [[Jack in the Green]] - a song about the [[Marches Egregore]]
* [[The Culloch Boar]] - tells of the origins of the Culloch banner

====More Songs====
*[[The Unquiet Grave]]
* [[Tom A'Bedlam's song]]
* [[Ye Mariners All]] - medium drinking song
* [[Here's A Health to the Company]] - easy drinking song
* [[His Banner's Not Mine]] - medium love song
* [[Pull Down Below]] - medium shanty with chunky harmonies
* One More Day - easy shanty: [http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/showlyric.php/onemore lyrics], [http://thealbionband.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-day tune]
* [[Ten Thousand Miles]] - love song with easy harmony accomp
* [[Pretty Ploughboy]] - easy song about saving the lad you love from the war
* [[Silent Giants]] - easy song about standing stones

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Songs are usually unaccompanied in the Marches, typically sung in raucous harmony rather than using instruments. However sometimes drums, accordions, guitars, fiddles, and whistles/recorders are used. For instrumental music, look to the very heavy rhythms of trad English music (the kind of tunes used to accompany morris dancing would be perfect).

* The Chicken Dance - dance tune often brought out at hen parties and other festivities, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Chook_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Chook_dance_faster.mp3 recording]
* The Bond Ring - dance tune for weddings and other bondings, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Bond_Ring_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Bondring.mp3 recording]

====Other performance traditions====
[[Marches Tales]]

===How to adapt your repertoire===
The Marches is all about people singing ''together'' so choose songs that have a chorus, or even better, a call and response line. Nothing wrong with a bard leading a song but try to encourage participation from the people around you, even if just banging their tankards off the table. Can you turn your song into a drinking song?! Think of some harmonies ahead of time and if possible teach them to your group instead of using instrumental accompaniment. Any folk song will be fine but especially those in the themes listed above. If you are mostly a solo performer perhaps learn a few easy rounds and sing them with people between your solo numbers.

===Our sources===
* Songs: Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Muldoon's Picnic; Fisherman's Friends; Chumbawamba (the folky stuff e.g. English Rebel Songs and ABCDEFG), and number of Welsh a capella choirs; all great acapella harmony singers. Seth Lakeman (sans guitar), June Tabor.
* Tunes: Florida, Eliza Carthy
* Great list of harvest themed songs: http://piereligion.org/harvestsongs.html
* Good list of sea shanty lyrics (stick to the very English sounding ones, preferably about fishing): http://www.boundingmain.com/Lyrics.htm
* Good list of sources for English folk suitable for the Marches: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoJyPBKHsU&list=PL28D4FF038B6F4D35&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

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[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]

The Marches music

2016-06-24T21:15:10Z

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==The music of The Marches==

===Style summary===
A capella harmony singing, no-nonsense, boisterous and earthy, simple folk and morality tales, minimal instrumentation, heavy rhythms on guitars, bouzoukis or concertinas. Themes of working the land, agriculture and fishing, harvest, enjoyment of food and drink, recognition of obligation to the land and its people.

The music of the Marches is drawn primarily from the folk song traditions of Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire and Yorkshire: wassails, shanties, drinking songs, and work songs.

===Commonly known songs===

*[[Marcher battle song]], invariably sung before battle!
*[[Bringing in the Sheaves]], a harvest song (not the hymn), often sung for solidarity.
*[[Down to Earth]], a song about the importance of good earth and common sense to the Marchers!
* Many people in the Marches will know one version of a [[Wassail]]

===Musical traditions===
After every harvest, Marcher farmers perform a traditional ceremony, a [[Wassail]], to scare away evil spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the [[Marches Culture and Customs#Wassail|Marcher brief]].

In the Marches, misdeeds are sometimes rewarded with a public shaming using noise, music, even satirical performance of some kind, called [[Marches Culture and Customs#Rough Music|Rough Music]]. Some chants are known throughout the Marches such as those below (usually interspersed with verses detailing the misdeed), some songs/performances are written especially for the occasion!
* "Ran tan tan, raise your hand, a sin to us is a sin to the land"
* "Old Fred Thatcher (insert name of miscreant), we know your name, Old Fred Thatcher, you are to blame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your shame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your name!"

====Battle Songs====
* [[Marcher battle song]] easy song for marching into battle
* [[Rebel March]] easy song for upsetting the Dawnish (and battles)
* Yet another [[Marches Battle Song]]
* [[Marcher At My Side]] - easy song popular with soldiers in the Marcher armies

====Harvest Songs and Wassails====
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[John Barleycorn]] medium folk song
* [[Wassail]] easy call and response, and lots of versions
*[[Harvest Time]] - song about the land and Britta's lost army

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Marcher Dirge]] - a bit heretical
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars
* [[Only Remembered For What We Have Done]] - medium harmony song
* [[Lay me Low]] - medium difficulty harmony song

====Songs from Mournwold====
* [[Mournwold Harvest]] - sad song about orphaned Mournwolders
* [[Jonah Gold]] - traditional miners song from Mournwold

====One for the kids====

* [[Whose Pigs Are These?]] a fun round
* [[Chants for naughty children]]

====Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches====
* [[Jack in the Green]] - a song about the [[Marches Egregore]]
* [[The Culloch Boar]] - tells of the origins of the Culloch banner

====More Songs====
*[[The Unquiet Grave]]
* [[Tom A'Bedlam's song]]
* [[Ye Mariners All]] - medium drinking song
* [[Here's A Health to the Company]] - easy drinking song
* [[His Banner's Not Mine]] - medium love song
* [[Pull Down Below]] - medium shanty with chunky harmonies
* One More Day - easy shanty: [http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/showlyric.php/onemore lyrics], [http://thealbionband.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-day tune]
* [[Ten Thousand Miles]] - love song with easy harmony accomp
* [[Pretty Ploughboy]] - easy song about saving the lad you love from the war
* [[Silent Giants]] - easy song about standing stones

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Songs are usually unaccompanied in the Marches, typically sung in raucous harmony rather than using instruments. However sometimes drums, accordions, guitars, fiddles, and whistles/recorders are used. For instrumental music, look to the very heavy rhythms of trad English music (the kind of tunes used to accompany morris dancing would be perfect).

* The Chicken Dance - dance tune often brought out at hen parties and other festivities, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Chook_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Chook_dance_faster.mp3 recording]
* The Bond Ring - dance tune for weddings and other bondings, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Bond_Ring_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Bondring.mp3 recording]

====Other performance traditions====
[[Marches Tales]]

===How to adapt your repertoire===
The Marches is all about people singing ''together'' so choose songs that have a chorus, or even better, a call and response line. Nothing wrong with a bard leading a song but try to encourage participation from the people around you, even if just banging their tankards off the table. Can you turn your song into a drinking song?! Think of some harmonies ahead of time and if possible teach them to your group instead of using instrumental accompaniment. Any folk song will be fine but especially those in the themes listed above. If you are mostly a solo performer perhaps learn a few easy rounds and sing them with people between your solo numbers.

===Our sources===
* Songs: Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Muldoon's Picnic; Fisherman's Friends; Chumbawamba (the folky stuff e.g. English Rebel Songs and ABCDEFG), and number of Welsh a capella choirs; all great acapella harmony singers. Seth Lakeman (sans guitar), June Tabor.
* Tunes: Florida, Eliza Carthy
* Great list of harvest themed songs: http://piereligion.org/harvestsongs.html
* Good list of sea shanty lyrics (stick to the very English sounding ones, preferably about fishing): http://www.boundingmain.com/Lyrics.htm
* Good list of sources for English folk suitable for the Marches: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoJyPBKHsU&list=PL28D4FF038B6F4D35&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

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Jack in the Green

2016-06-24T21:12:57Z

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Tune and lyrics by Martin Graebe. Good version on youtube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VMduKN7qgI here]

[http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/music/daisy/jack-in-the-green.mp3 Free mp3 of Daisy singing Jack in the Green with Glasgow Madrigirls.]

Sheet music can be found [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Jack%20in%20the%20Green_noharmony.pdf here] and a harmony version [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Jack%20in%20the%20Green.pdf here]

<ic>"This song has always been very popular with the Ramsbruck family of Bregasland, to whom Robert of Ramsbruck belonged before he became our ol' Jack. It was sung so often that it barely got a reaction - unless the singers venture one of the less-well-known raunchy verses, which sometimes caused a raised eyebrow, or a quiet "Now then" before Jack went back to doing whatever he was doing before."</ic>

<song>
Now Winter is over I'm happy to say
And we're all met again on the first day of May
And we're all met again for to dance and to sing
And to go about dancing with Jack- in - the- Green

''Jack- in - the- Green, Jack- in - the- Green''
''And we'll dance every Springtime with Jack- in - the- Green''

Now Jack- in - the- Green is a vey strange man
Though he dies every Autumn he is born every Spring
And each year on his birthday we dance through the streets
And in return Jack he will ripen the wheat

With his mantle he'll cover the trees that are bare
And our gardens he'll trim with his jacket so fair
And the fields he will sow with the hair of his head
And the corn it will ripen til old Jack is dead

Now the sun is half up and it tokens the hour
When the children arrive with their garlands of flowers
So now let the music and dancing begin
And toast the good heart of young Jack- in- the- Green
</song>

Jack in the Green

2016-06-24T21:11:01Z

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[[Category:Marches]]

Tune and lyrics by Martin Graebe. Good version on youtube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VMduKN7qgI here]

[http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/music/daisy/jack-in-the-green.mp3 Free mp3 of Daisy singing Jack in the Green with Glasgow Madrigirls.]

Sheet music can be found [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Jack%20in%20the%20Green_noharmony.pdf here] and a harmony version [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Jack%20in%20the%20Green.pdf here]

<ic>"This song has always been very popular with the Ramsbruck family of Bregasland, to whom Jack belonged before they became Jack. It barely gets a reaction now - unless the singers venture one of the less-well-known raunchy verses, which sometimes causes a raised eyebrow, or a quiet "Now then" before Jack goes back to doing whatever they were doing before."</ic>

<song>
Now Winter is over I'm happy to say
And we're all met again on the first day of May
And we're all met again for to dance and to sing
And to go about dancing with Jack- in - the- Green

''Jack- in - the- Green, Jack- in - the- Green''
''And we'll dance every Springtime with Jack- in - the- Green''

Now Jack- in - the- Green is a vey strange man
Though he dies every Autumn he is born every Spring
And each year on his birthday we dance through the streets
And in return Jack he will ripen the wheat

With his mantle he'll cover the trees that are bare
And our gardens he'll trim with his jacket so fair
And the fields he will sow with the hair of his head
And the corn it will ripen til old Jack is dead

Now the sun is half up and it tokens the hour
When the children arrive with their garlands of flowers
So now let the music and dancing begin
And toast the good heart of young Jack- in- the- Green
</song>

Silent Giants

2016-06-24T18:26:50Z

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This is a traditional Marcher song about standing stones.

Words by Jude and Daisy. Recording of this song is [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/music/daisy/dolmen.mp3 here].

Sheet music is available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Silent%20Giants.pdf here]

<song>
'''The Silent Giants'''

They stand so proud, they stand so still
Those silent figures on the hill
Shale and granite, chalk and lime
Bent double by the weight of time
There beneath the empty sky
They see the people passing by
Wind and sunshine, hail and snow
They wait as seasons come and go

In their shadow, by their feet
Children play and true loves meet
Sons and daughters, friends and foes
Watched by eyes that never close
Between them grass and flowers grow
For what they they wait no one can know
Dawn and twilight, night and day
They wait the turning years away

Some say upon Midsummer's night
They walk when moon and stars are bright
Come the dawn no trace you'll find
But the footprints left behind
The time will come they'll wake again
To walk once more on hill and fen
Till then they stand so proud and still
Those silent giants on the hill
</song>

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Pull Down Below

2016-06-24T18:25:42Z

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Trad shanty, edited by Daisy
[http://www.youtube.com/#/watch?v=65AL1WIVfG8 youtube version]

Sheet music is available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Pull%20Down%20Below.pdf here]

<song>
Sally lives on an old plantation
Resp: Pull down below!
She’s the prettiest in the nation
Resp: Pull down below!

'''Chorus'''
Oh Marcher Laddie
Pull down below
Marcher Laddie, Bonnie Laddie
Pull down below

For seven years he courted Sally
Resp: Pull down below!
And all he did was dilly-dally
Resp: Pull down below! (Chorus)

He bought no gowns, he bought no laces
Resp: Pull down below!
Didn’t take her out to fancy places
Resp: Pull down below! (Chorus)

Sally Brown she loved him dearly
Resp: Pull down below!
He had her heart so very nearly
Resp: Pull down below! (Chorus)

Sally Brown he wouldn’t marry
Resp: Pull down below!
And she no longer cares to tarry
Resp: Pull down below! (Chorus)

This laddie now he took a notion
Resp: Pull down below!
To sail away across the ocean
Resp: Pull down below! (Chorus x2)

</song>

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The Culloch Boar

2016-06-24T18:24:39Z

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Tune by Kathryn Wheeler, lyrics by Kathryn Wheeler and Jude Reid

Sheet music is available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/The_Culloch_Boar.pdf here]

<song>
High upon the Culloch fell
In forest thick and black as hell
Dwells a boar with eyes aglow
To its lair none dares to go

One cold winter, hard the ground
The boar it comes a-snuffling round
Takes a taste for human meat
Finds the blood and marrow sweet

CHORUS
''Brothers, sisters, beaters all''
''Take up arms and heed the call''
''Evermore my kin shall be''
''Those who hunt the boar with me''

Every night it kills again
Hungry for the blood of men
Till the keeper tells the town
One of you must hunt it down

Every heart is filled with fear
There's no yeoman dares go near
Till a beater, bold and brave
Vows he'll go, the town to save

CHORUS

He takes his bow, he takes his spear
He kisses wife and children dear
He goes his speed and skill to try
To slay the boar or else to die

Now the beaters, keen of eye
Track it to the mountains high
And from inside a night-black cave
Piggy eyes glow bright with rage

CHORUS

Every spear in bright array
Is turned to hold the beast at bay
But with one charge a man lies dead
Its tusks and muzzle drip with red

Our beater lad, with all his might
Steps up now to join the fight
Thrusts and parries with his spear
Holds at bay both beast and fear

CHORUS

Now he thrusts the spear again
Hears it roar and shriek in pain
But the boar with bloody glee
Rips his thigh from hip to knee

Now it stares with hungry eyes
Eager to devour its prize
Our beater gathers all his skill
For one last chance the beast to kill

CHORUS

And as it turns to run him down
He plants his spearshaft in the ground
Lowers the point, its charge to meet
And skewers the brute dead at his feet

They carry home the beast they killed
And long the feast, each belly filled
And ne'er was tasted pork so sweet
As that which fed on Marcher meat

CHORUS

''(to the tune of the second half of the verse - slowly)''
Granted is the hunting right
To those who slew the boar this night
Culloch's horns shall ever sound
Here upon their hunting ground.

CHORUS

</song>

Whose Pigs Are These?

2016-06-24T18:21:21Z

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<song>
Whose pigs are these?
Whose pigs are these?
They are John Potts' you can tell 'em by the spots and I found 'em trampling over my garden!

Of course, Marchers have added many a verse to this, late at night in the taverns - and as you can imagine, some verses get really rather rude!

</song>

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Whose Pigs Are These?

2016-06-24T18:16:38Z

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<song>
Whose pigs are these?
Whose pigs are these?
They are John Potts' you can tell 'em by the spots and I found 'em trampling over my garden!

Of course, Marchers have added many a verse to this, late at night in the taverns - and not _all_ the verses are necessarily child friendly in such circumstances

Sheet music can be found [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Whose%20Pigs%20Are%20These.pdf here] with the full lyrics. Use your discretion on which verses to sing!
</song>

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Jonah Gold

2016-06-24T18:13:35Z

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Stories of [[Mournwold#Jonah Gold|Jonah Gold]] are told throughout the Marches, and in parts of [[Hahnmark]], [[Tassato]], and [[Kahraman]]. The most popular tale dates from the time of [[The Marches history|the Cousins' War]], and is referenced in a well-known song that is particularly popular in the [[Mournwold]] - there is evidence that Jonah was born and grew up in the [[Mournwold#Ore Hills|Ore Hills]] long before the Mourn was fully conquered by the Marchers.

Jonah was said to be a miner who quarried out metal of such quality that his weapons turned the tide of war for his [[Marcher household|household]]. His jealous friend betrayed him to the enemy, and for a heavy purse of coin staged a mining accident that trapped him behind a rockfall where he presumably perished. Superstitious miners say that to see Jonah Gold presages disaster - whether his appearance causes catastrophe or simply warns against it varies from legend to legend.

His name has also been given to a variety of apple commonly grown in the [[Mournwold]]. Heavy, green and sweet, with a sharp bite, the "Jonah Gold" variety is used extensively in cooking sweet pies and apple sauce, and traditionally is buried with miners from the Mourn, particularly those who quarry [[Materials#Green Iron|green iron]].

<song>
'''Jonah Gold'''
<i>Traditional, Mournwold
(OOC: Lyrics by Jude Reid, Music and arrangement by Kathryn Wheeler)</i>

A recording can be found [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Jonahgold.mp3 here]

Take your pick, push your cart
Make your way to the Mournwold's heart
Fire the rock, watch it break
All its fortune is yours to take
Pick and pan, sweat and toil
Carving wealth out of Mournworld's soil

As you work, miners bold
Beware of Jonah Gold

Times of war, long ago
Cousins fought then as mortal foes
Jonah Gold, Marcher brave
Mined the iron for his Household's blades
Found a seam, green iron ore
Held an edge like no blade before

As you work, miners bold
Beware of Jonah Gold

Jonah Gold, took the field
Armed his household with sword and shield
Won the day, claimed the land
Gainst his weapons no foe could stand
Turned the war for his kin
With his steel they were sure to win

As you work, miners bold
Beware of Jonah Gold

Jonah Gold, none his peer
Sent his weapons both far and near
Jealous eyes saw his skill
Envied him as weak souls will
Rosie Smith, once his friend
Swore that Jonah's life she'd end

As you work, miners bold
Beware of Jonah Gold

One cold day, down the pit
Shovels carried and lanterns lit
Jonah followed a call for aid
Learned too late that he was betrayed
Heard the blast's fearful sound
Rockfall trapped him beneath the ground

As you work, miners bold
Beware of Jonah Gold.

Rosie Smith, name be cursed
Killed her friend for a traitor's purse
Spent her life, stiff with fright
Saw his face in her dreams each night
Lost her will, lost her wits
Never ventured back in the pit

As you work, miners bold
Beware of Jonah Gold

Jonah Gold wanders still
Haunts the mine beneath Mournwold's hill
In the mines, dark and deep
Rotting husk that can never sleep
Face like coal, eyes that burn
Waits for the traitor to return

As you work, miners bold
Beware of Jonah Gold

Some say he comes to warn
Jonah means no true miner harm
See him there, turn and run
Death will strike ere the shift is done
Mournwold's mines claim their due
Marcher blood keeps the iron true

As you work, miners bold
Beware of Jonah Gold

<song>
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Lay me Low

2016-06-24T18:10:33Z

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[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]
[[Category:Marches]]
[[Category:Dirge]]

Traditional / John Tams [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Gx27jRbYo youtube version]

Sheet music (arranged by Jude & Daisy, from Coope Boyes & Simpson) is [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Lay%20Me%20Low.pdf here] (with harmonies - the melody is the middle line) or [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Lay%20Me%20Low_noharmony.pdf here] (melody alone)

Midi: [[Media:Lay-me-low.midi]]

<song>
Lay me low, lay me low, lay me low
Where no-one can see me
Where no-one can find me
Where no-one can hurt me

Show me the way, help me to say
All that I need to
All that I needed you gave me
All that I wanted you made me
When I stumbled you saved me

Lay me low, lay me low, lay me low
Where no-one can see me
Where no-one can find me
Where no-one can hurt me

Throw me a line, help me to find
Something to cling to
When the loneliness haunts me
When the bitterness taunts me
When the emptiness eats me.

Lay me low, lay me low, lay me low
Where no-one can see me
Where no-one can find me
Where no-one can hurt me
</song>

Only Remembered For What We Have Done

2016-06-24T18:08:26Z

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Traditional / John Tams. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyoJn8Ebb7I Coope Boyes and Simpson version on youtube]

Sheet music is available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Only%20Remembered%20For%20What%20We%20Have%20Done.pdf here] Please note - the melody of the song is the middle line.

<song>
Fading away like the stars in the morning
Losing their light in the glorious sun
Thus would we pass from this earth and its toiling
Only remembered for what we have done

Only the truth in the fife we have spoken
Only the seed that in life we have sown
These shall pass onwards when we are forgotten
Only remembered for what we have done

Who'll sing the anthem and who'll tell the story
Will the line hold will it scatter and run
Shall we at last be united in glory
Only remembered for what we have done
</song>

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[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Music]]

Only Remembered For What We Have Done

2016-06-24T18:07:11Z

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Traditional / John Tams. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyoJn8Ebb7I Coope Boyes and Simpson version on youtube]

Sheet music is available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Only%20Remembered%20For%20What%20We%20Have%20Done.pdf here]

<song>
Fading away like the stars in the morning
Losing their light in the glorious sun
Thus would we pass from this earth and its toiling
Only remembered for what we have done

Only the truth in the fife we have spoken
Only the seed that in life we have sown
These shall pass onwards when we are forgotten
Only remembered for what we have done

Who'll sing the anthem and who'll tell the story
Will the line hold will it scatter and run
Shall we at last be united in glory
Only remembered for what we have done
</song>

[[Category:Marches Music]]
[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Music]]

Carts Come Home

2016-06-24T18:06:02Z

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Carts Come Home was written by Jennet of Mourn, to commemorate the Marchers lost in the battle for Karsk.

OOC it was written by Daisy, loosely based on the trad tune The Water Is Wide. Recording is [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/music/daisy/carts-come-home.mp3 here].

Sheet music is available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/The_Carts_Come_Home.pdf here]

<song>
The carts come home, the oxen heavy laden
With Marcher bones, brought from another nation
Our girls come home, in fallow fields they're lying
And all alone, I see the farmer crying.

The carts come home, the oxen heavy laden
Our orchards grown, will hang heavy in the autumn
Our girls come home, in fallow fields they're lying
For seeds are sown, where other flowers lie dying
</song>

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[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Music]]

Marcher Dirge

2016-06-24T16:19:29Z

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[[Category:Marches]]
[[Category:Music]]
[[Category: Marches Music]]

This song is often sung to accompany the body to its final resting place - particularly amongst the folk of King's Stoke, in Upwold. It has since become well known throughout the Marches.

Based on the Lyke Wake Dirge (a video is available [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-nfC4x0p2w&feature=youtube_gdata_player here])

Sheet music available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/The%20Marcher%20Dirge.pdf here]

Each verse features a call and refrain. This dirge pre-dates the Marches conversion to the Imperial Faith, and some more traditional Priests of the Imperial faith consider it near to heretical. That said, the song is still often sung at funerals, particularly in some of the more remote parts of the Marches.

<song>

This aye nighte, this aye nighte,
—Refrain: Every nighte and alle,
Fire and fleet and candle-lighte,
—Refrain: And Earth receive thy soul.

When thou from hence away art past
—Every nighte and alle,
To Whinny-muir thou com'st at last
—And Earth receive thy soul

If ever thou gavest hosen and shoon,
—Every nighte and alle,
Sit thee down and put them on
—And Earth receive thy soul

If hosen and shoon thou ne'er gav'st nane
—Every nighte and alle,
The whinnes shall prick thee to the bare bane.
—And Earth receive thy soul

From Whinny Moor when thou may'st pass,
—Every nighte and alle,
To the great fire thou com'st at last;
—And Earth receive thy soul

If ever thou gavest meat or drink,
—Every nighte and alle,
The fire sall never make thee shrink;
—And Earth receive thy soul.

If meat or drink thou ne'er gav'st nane,
—Every nighte and alle,
The fire will burn thee to the bare bane;
—And Earth receive thy soul

This aye night, this aye night,
—Every nighte and alle,
Fire and sleet and candle-light,
—And Earth receive thy soul
</song>

Marcher Dirge

2016-06-24T16:18:48Z

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[[Category:Marches]]
[[Category:Music]]
[[Category: Marches Music]]

This song is often sung to accompany the body to its final resting place - particularly amongst the folk of King's Stoke, in Upwold. It has since become well known throughout the Marches.

Based on the Lyke Wake Dirge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-nfC4x0p2w&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Sheet music available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/The%20Marcher%20Dirge.pdf here]

Each verse features a call and refrain. This dirge pre-dates the Marches conversion to the Imperial Faith, and some more traditional Priests of the Imperial faith consider it near to heretical. That said, the song is still often sung at funerals, particularly in some of the more remote parts of the Marches.

<song>

This aye nighte, this aye nighte,
—Refrain: Every nighte and alle,
Fire and fleet and candle-lighte,
—Refrain: And Earth receive thy soul.

When thou from hence away art past
—Every nighte and alle,
To Whinny-muir thou com'st at last
—And Earth receive thy soul

If ever thou gavest hosen and shoon,
—Every nighte and alle,
Sit thee down and put them on
—And Earth receive thy soul

If hosen and shoon thou ne'er gav'st nane
—Every nighte and alle,
The whinnes shall prick thee to the bare bane.
—And Earth receive thy soul

From Whinny Moor when thou may'st pass,
—Every nighte and alle,
To the great fire thou com'st at last;
—And Earth receive thy soul

If ever thou gavest meat or drink,
—Every nighte and alle,
The fire sall never make thee shrink;
—And Earth receive thy soul.

If meat or drink thou ne'er gav'st nane,
—Every nighte and alle,
The fire will burn thee to the bare bane;
—And Earth receive thy soul

This aye night, this aye night,
—Every nighte and alle,
Fire and sleet and candle-light,
—And Earth receive thy soul
</song>

Marcher At My Side

2016-06-24T16:11:49Z

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This song was written by Jennet whilst in command of Tom Drake's army and is popular amongst soldiers. Often only the first three verses are sung.

OOC the tune is the Gallant Forty Twa, words by Daisy, Jude and Kath. Recording is [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/music/daisy/marcher-at-my-side.mp3 here].

An often sung variant of the tune is slightly different - sheet music available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/A%20Marcher%20At%20My%20Side.pdf here]

<song>
1. Well once I was a farmer
Out in the sun and rain
I sowed the fields in springtime
And reaped the autumn grain
But I've put down my ploughing,
Took my billhook in my hand
And joined that gallant army
That's the pride of Bregasland

Chorus:
You can talk about your Highguard
And your Freeborn Privateers
Your Wintermark militia
And your Dawnish Volunteers
Or any other army,
The glorious Empire wide
For I'd sooner be a Strong Reed,
With a Marcher at my side.

2.Well I was a musician
Across the land I'd play
From the taverns down in Wayford
To the golden fields of Hay
But now I am a drummer
And I've laid my harp aside
And now I march to battle
Proudly at the Bounders' side

Chorus
(ending with "For I'd sooner be a
Bounder, with a Marcher at my side")

3.Well I was once a Friar
A pilgrim on the Way
My nights were spent in prayer
And I tended herbs by day
But I've left the monastery
And I'm armed with mace and shield
And now I preach to Tom Drake's army
On the battlefield

Chorus
(ending with "For I'd sooner be in
Tom Drake's, with a Marcher at my side")

4.Once I was a trapper
Culling vermin on the farm
But I yearn to use my bow skills
To do a greater harm
So now I've left the copses
Where the fox and deer abide
To go to cull the enemy,
The Beaters at my side

Chorus
(ending with "For I'd sooner be a
Beater, with a Marcher at my side")

5.I bargain with Eternals,
I circle and recite
To bring the crops to fruitfulness
Heal blemish and the blight
And now, intoning in the fray
Unarmed, no plate, no chain
This Upwold Keeper strives to keep
His fellow Bounders sane

Chorus
(ending with "For I'd sooner be a
Bounder, with a Marcher at my side")

6.The sickle that scythed through the grain
Now reaps a grimmer yield
And the billhook that repaired the hedge
Lays waste upon the field
The Strong Reeds stand unbowed, unbent
Against the coming storm
And now we thresh right through them
Like a flail through the corn

Chorus
(ending with "For I'd sooner be a
Strong Reed, with a Marcher at my side")

7.Where the land once echoed
With hammer striking steel
The rhythm of the lathe and loom,
The weapon-maker's zeal
The gathering troops now gird their loins
With the fruits of sweat and blood:
The gambeson, the mail shirt,
The hauberk and the hood

Chorus
(ending with "For I'd sooner be a
Marcher, with my fellows at my side")

</song>

[[Category:Marches Music]]
[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Music]]

Marcher At My Side

2016-06-24T16:09:41Z

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This song was written by Jennet whilst in command of Tom Drake's army and is popular amongst soldiers. Often only the first three verses are sung.

OOC the tune is the Gallant Forty Twa, words by Daisy, Jude and Kath. Recording is [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/music/daisy/marcher-at-my-side.mp3 here].

Sheet music available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/A%20Marcher%20At%20My%20Side.pdf here]

<song>
1. Well once I was a farmer
Out in the sun and rain
I sowed the fields in springtime
And reaped the autumn grain
But I've put down my ploughing,
Took my billhook in my hand
And joined that gallant army
That's the pride of Bregasland

Chorus:
You can talk about your Highguard
And your Freeborn Privateers
Your Wintermark militia
And your Dawnish Volunteers
Or any other army,
The glorious Empire wide
For I'd sooner be a Strong Reed,
With a Marcher at my side.

2.Well I was a musician
Across the land I'd play
From the taverns down in Wayford
To the golden fields of Hay
But now I am a drummer
And I've laid my harp aside
And now I march to battle
Proudly at the Bounders' side

Chorus
(ending with "For I'd sooner be a
Bounder, with a Marcher at my side")

3.Well I was once a Friar
A pilgrim on the Way
My nights were spent in prayer
And I tended herbs by day
But I've left the monastery
And I'm armed with mace and shield
And now I preach to Tom Drake's army
On the battlefield

Chorus
(ending with "For I'd sooner be in
Tom Drake's, with a Marcher at my side")

4.Once I was a trapper
Culling vermin on the farm
But I yearn to use my bow skills
To do a greater harm
So now I've left the copses
Where the fox and deer abide
To go to cull the enemy,
The Beaters at my side

Chorus
(ending with "For I'd sooner be a
Beater, with a Marcher at my side")

5.I bargain with Eternals,
I circle and recite
To bring the crops to fruitfulness
Heal blemish and the blight
And now, intoning in the fray
Unarmed, no plate, no chain
This Upwold Keeper strives to keep
His fellow Bounders sane

Chorus
(ending with "For I'd sooner be a
Bounder, with a Marcher at my side")

6.The sickle that scythed through the grain
Now reaps a grimmer yield
And the billhook that repaired the hedge
Lays waste upon the field
The Strong Reeds stand unbowed, unbent
Against the coming storm
And now we thresh right through them
Like a flail through the corn

Chorus
(ending with "For I'd sooner be a
Strong Reed, with a Marcher at my side")

7.Where the land once echoed
With hammer striking steel
The rhythm of the lathe and loom,
The weapon-maker's zeal
The gathering troops now gird their loins
With the fruits of sweat and blood:
The gambeson, the mail shirt,
The hauberk and the hood

Chorus
(ending with "For I'd sooner be a
Marcher, with my fellows at my side")

</song>

[[Category:Marches Music]]
[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Music]]

Marches Battle Song

2016-06-24T16:08:14Z

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[[Category: Music]]
[[Category: Marches Music]]
[[Category: The Marches]]

This goes to the tune of Scot's Whae Hae - a video of the original can be found [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgskbClWZ68 here]

<song>
Marchers who have sown your grain
Reaped it back to grow again
Now we march from field and fen
On to victory

Now's the day, and now's the hour;
See the front o' battle lour;
See approach barbarian power-
Chains and slavery!

What will be a traitor knave?
What can fill a coward's grave?
What so base as be a slave?
Let him turn and flee!

For the Marches land and law,
Freedom's sword will strongly draw,
Free-man stand, or Free-man fa',
Let them on wi' me!

By oppression's woes and pains!
By their slaves in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!

Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!-
Let us do or die!

</song>

Rebel March

2016-06-24T16:00:44Z

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A great song to sing about the March from Dawn - also highly suitable when you want to have a stab at any Marcher that develops airs of being better than the rest of us!

Sheet music available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Rebel%20March.pdf here]

The first half of each verse is the same every time - so a great one for everyone to join in with, there!
Original song 'Thaney' by Karine Polwart. Words by Jude.

<song>
Rise up now and break your shackles
Join us as we march along
Sister side by side with brother
Till we march ten thousand strong
I shall have no lord and master
Sitting in his halls of stone
Sow no corn and reap no harvest
But for land that's ours alone

Rise up now and break your shackles
Join us as we march along
Sister side by side with brother
Till we march ten thousand strong
I shall wear no leash and collar
I shall be no rich man's hound
Let the scraps from off his table
Lie uneaten on the ground

Rise up now and break your shackles
Join us as we march along
Sister side by side with brother
Till we march ten thousand strong
Never more we'll bow and curtsy
Never more we'll bend the knee
Ours will be a bond of equals
Forged in trust and loyalty

Rise up now and break your shackles
Join us as we march along
Sister side by side with brother
Till we march ten thousand strong
You who serve a cruel master
You who long to be set free
Take the yoke from off your shoulders
Rise up now and follow me

Rise up now and break your shackles
Join us as we march along
Sister side by side with brother
Till we march ten thousand strong
Raise your head and raise the banner
Fall in now behind the drum
Foes shall quail and tyrants tremble
As they hear the Marchers come
</song>

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[[Category: The Marches]]
[[Category: Marches Music]]

Rebel March

2016-06-24T16:00:13Z

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A great song to sing about the March from Dawn - also highly suitable when you're feeling bitter or having a stab at any Marcher that develops airs of being better than the rest of us!

Sheet music available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Rebel%20March.pdf here]

The first half of each verse is the same every time - so a great one for everyone to join in with, there!
Original song 'Thaney' by Karine Polwart. Words by Jude.

<song>
Rise up now and break your shackles
Join us as we march along
Sister side by side with brother
Till we march ten thousand strong
I shall have no lord and master
Sitting in his halls of stone
Sow no corn and reap no harvest
But for land that's ours alone

Rise up now and break your shackles
Join us as we march along
Sister side by side with brother
Till we march ten thousand strong
I shall wear no leash and collar
I shall be no rich man's hound
Let the scraps from off his table
Lie uneaten on the ground

Rise up now and break your shackles
Join us as we march along
Sister side by side with brother
Till we march ten thousand strong
Never more we'll bow and curtsy
Never more we'll bend the knee
Ours will be a bond of equals
Forged in trust and loyalty

Rise up now and break your shackles
Join us as we march along
Sister side by side with brother
Till we march ten thousand strong
You who serve a cruel master
You who long to be set free
Take the yoke from off your shoulders
Rise up now and follow me

Rise up now and break your shackles
Join us as we march along
Sister side by side with brother
Till we march ten thousand strong
Raise your head and raise the banner
Fall in now behind the drum
Foes shall quail and tyrants tremble
As they hear the Marchers come
</song>

[[Category: Music]]
[[Category: The Marches]]
[[Category: Marches Music]]

Bringing in the Sheaves

2016-06-24T15:56:07Z

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Bringing in the Sheaves by Jim Boyes

A great version available on "Funny Old World" by Coope Boyes and Simpson.

Harmony recording sung by Glasgow Madrigirls: [[Media:bringinginthesheaves.mp3]]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BYrnPGQ5qU Solo Youtube version].

Sheet music available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Bringing%20in%20the%20Sheaves.pdf here]

<song>
Though it's way past harvest time
Some still toil and work and wagons rattle
Corn still stands in rank and line
And defies us all
We can see it in our past
Blood will out and joy will battle
Though we work in different ways we're bringing in the sheaves

(Chorus) - Bringing in the sheaves, we're bringing in the sheaves.
Though we work in different ways we're bringing in the sheaves

Though we started from the land
Some of us do roam abroad
The hand upon the gliding plough is not for everyone
Changing seasons help us see
Those who hear a different drummer
Though not in one harmony, we're bringing in the sheaves

(Chorus)

What lay dormant in the soil
Is wakened by the kiss of summer
So the fruits of yesteryear become the years new corn
Every stem has at its core, part of those who went before
In turn they will be kept in store by bringing the sheaves

(Chorus)

In conclusion bear in mind
What example has begun
What today you do in kind has power for everyone
True strong aims will pass along
To your daughters and your sons
So may they in years to come be bringing in the sheaves

(Chorus)
</song>

[[Category:Marches Music]]
[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Music]]

Marcher battle song

2016-06-24T15:54:49Z

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Original tune [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOumjsxelws Hughie Graeme] as sung by June Tabor. Lyrics by Daisy Abbott and Chris Edwards. Recording at [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/music/daisy/marcher-battle-song.mp3 Marcher Battle Song] or try [[media:Marcher_Battle_Song.mid]]

Sheet music available [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Marcher%20Battle%20Song.pdf here]

<song>
Em
Marcher lasses, Marcher lads,
Em ______________________ A
Leave your homes and leave your farms
Em
Beat your ploughshares into swords
Em ____________ Bm___Em
The time has come to take up arms

''Repeat''

'''Chorus:'''
A
Come along and join with me
A __________________ Em
Hear the horns the Beaters blow
Em
Our foes will fall before the scythe
Em______________ Bm___Em
From earth we come, to earth we go

Join me marching ever on
With your billhook in your hand
Feel the ground begin to shake
When Marchers fight for Marcher land

''Repeat''

'''Chorus'''

We are stout and we are strong
Marcher folk will never yield
We shall never be afraid
With Virtue as our shining shield

''Repeat''

'''Chorus'''

Those that stand before us now
They shall reap just as they sow
Their bodies will enrich our soil
Their blood will make the barley grow

''Repeat''

'''Chorus'''

</song>

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[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Music]]

Down to Earth

2016-06-24T15:53:19Z

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[[Category: Music]]
[[Category: Marches Music]]
[[Category: The Marches]]

In praise of the fine qualities of the earth and common sense, which contains just about every mud-related idiom known! This song was originally written for a ritual to fortify the swamps of Bregasland, and has since become a general Marcher anthem! Music and lyrics by Kathryn Wheeler.

A recording of this song can be found [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/DowntoEarth.mp3 here]

<song>
The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend
Though you may laugh, its true
Whilst you think mud is “filthy”, well
We take a different view

And when the day is o..ver
We’ll drink a glass or more,
to Marcher mud - its in our blood,
Ingrained in every pore

Chorus:
We’re down to earth, down and dirty
Down and dirty, down and dirty
Down to earth, down and dirty
Digging for victory x2

We scorn polite society
To cultivate its loyalty
And though you think it unrefined
We treat it just like royalty

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus

We strive to treat the mud with care
With lots of muck and tilling
And it repays us thousandfold -
That’s why its so fulfilling

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus

The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend
So cross us if you dare
For it shall heed our call to war!
Intruders best beware……

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus
</song>

Lyrics and music by Kathryn Wheeler

Down to Earth

2016-06-24T15:50:40Z

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[[Category: Music]]
[[Category: Marches Music]]
[[Category: The Marches]]

A song originally written for Empire, for a ritual, which has become a general Marcher anthem! Music and lyrics by Kathryn Wheeler.

A recording of this song can be found [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/DowntoEarth.mp3 here]

<song>
The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend
Though you may laugh, its true
Whilst you think mud is “filthy”, well
We take a different view

And when the day is o..ver
We’ll drink a glass or more,
to Marcher mud - its in our blood,
Ingrained in every pore

Chorus:
We’re down to earth, down and dirty
Down and dirty, down and dirty
Down to earth, down and dirty
Digging for victory x2

We scorn polite society
To cultivate its loyalty
And though you think it unrefined
We treat it just like royalty

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus

We strive to treat the mud with care
With lots of muck and tilling
And it repays us thousandfold -
That’s why its so fulfilling

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus

The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend
So cross us if you dare
For it shall heed our call to war!
Intruders best beware……

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus
</song>

Lyrics and music by Kathryn Wheeler

Down to Earth

2016-06-24T15:48:47Z

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[[Category: Music]]
[[Category: Marches Music]]
[[Category: The Marches]]

A recording of this song can be found [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/DowntoEarth.mp3 here]

<song>
The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend
Though you may laugh, its true
Whilst you think mud is “filthy”, well
We take a different view

And when the day is o..ver
We’ll drink a glass or more,
to Marcher mud - its in our blood,
Ingrained in every pore

Chorus:
We’re down to earth, down and dirty
Down and dirty, down and dirty
Down to earth, down and dirty
Digging for victory x2

We scorn polite society
To cultivate its loyalty
And though you think it unrefined
We treat it just like royalty

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus

We strive to treat the mud with care
With lots of muck and tilling
And it repays us thousandfold -
That’s why its so fulfilling

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus

The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend
So cross us if you dare
For it shall heed our call to war!
Intruders best beware……

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus
</song>

Lyrics and music by Kathryn Wheeler

Down to Earth

2016-06-24T15:48:03Z

Fiddle-faddle:

[[Category: Music]]
[[Category: Marches Music]]
[[Category: The Marches]]

Sheet music and recording to follow soon!

<song>
The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend
Though you may laugh, its true
Whilst you think mud is “filthy”, well
We take a different view

And when the day is o..ver
We’ll drink a glass or more,
to Marcher mud - its in our blood,
Ingrained in every pore

Chorus:
We’re down to earth, down and dirty
Down and dirty, down and dirty
Down to earth, down and dirty
Digging for victory x2

We scorn polite society
To cultivate its loyalty
And though you think it unrefined
We treat it just like royalty

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus

We strive to treat the mud with care
With lots of muck and tilling
And it repays us thousandfold -
That’s why its so fulfilling

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus

The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend
So cross us if you dare
For it shall heed our call to war!
Intruders best beware……

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus
</song>

Lyrics and music by Kathryn Wheeler

Down to Earth

2016-06-14T18:19:27Z

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[[Category: Music]]
[[Category: Marches Music]]
[[Category: The Marches]]

This song was originally written by [[Marches Egregore|Kit the Mummer]] for a ritual, [[Dripping Echoes of the Fen]], to enchant the marshes of Bregasland against our foes. It has, since, become a general upbeat anthem.

Sheet music and recording to follow soon!

<song>
The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend
Though you may laugh, its true
Whilst you think mud is “filthy”, well
We take a different view

And when the day is o..ver
We’ll drink a glass or more,
to Marcher mud - its in our blood,
Ingrained in every pore

Chorus:
We’re down to earth, down and dirty
Down and dirty, down and dirty
Down to earth, down and dirty
Digging for victory x2

We scorn polite society
To cultivate its loyalty
And though you think it unrefined
We treat it just like royalty

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus

We strive to treat the mud with care
With lots of muck and tilling
And it repays us thousandfold -
That’s why its so fulfilling

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus

The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend
So cross us if you dare
For it shall heed our call to war!
Intruders best beware……

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus
</song>

Lyrics and music by Kathryn Wheeler

The Marches music

2016-06-14T18:11:45Z

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==The music of The Marches==

===Style summary===
A capella harmony singing, no-nonsense, boisterous and earthy, simple folk and morality tales, minimal instrumentation, heavy rhythms on guitars, bouzoukis or concertinas. Themes of working the land, agriculture and fishing, harvest, enjoyment of food and drink, recognition of obligation to the land and its people.

The music of the Marches is drawn primarily from the folk song traditions of Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire and Yorkshire: wassails, shanties, drinking songs, and work songs.

===Commonly known songs===

*[[Marcher battle song]], invariably sung before battle!
*[[Bringing in the Sheaves]], a harvest song (not the hymn), often sung for solidarity.
*[[Down to Earth]], a song about the importance of good earth and common sense to the Marchers!
* Many people in the Marches will know one version of a [[Wassail]]

===Musical traditions===
After every harvest, Marcher farmers perform a traditional ceremony, a [[Wassail]], to scare away evil spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the [[Marches Culture and Customs#Wassail|Marcher brief]].

In the Marches, misdeeds are sometimes rewarded with a public shaming using noise, music, even satirical performance of some kind, called [[Marches Culture and Customs#Rough Music|Rough Music]]. Some chants are known throughout the Marches such as those below (usually interspersed with verses detailing the misdeed), some songs/performances are written especially for the occasion!
* "Ran tan tan, raise your hand, a sin to us is a sin to the land"
* "Old Fred Thatcher (insert name of miscreant), we know your name, Old Fred Thatcher, you are to blame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your shame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your name!"

====Battle Songs====
* [[Marcher battle song]] easy song for marching into battle
* [[Rebel March]] easy song for upsetting the Dawnish (and battles)
* Yet another [[Marches Battle Song]]
* [[Marcher At My Side]] - easy song popular with soldiers in the Marcher armies

====Harvest Songs and Wassails====
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[John Barleycorn]] medium folk song
* [[Wassail]] easy call and response, and lots of versions
*[[Harvest Time]] - song about the land and Britta's lost army

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Marcher Dirge]] - a bit heretical
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars
* [[Only Remembered For What We Have Done]] - medium harmony song
* [[Lay me Low]] - medium difficulty harmony song

====Songs from Mournwold====
* [[Mournwold Harvest]] - sad song about orphaned Mournwolders
* [[Jonah Gold]] - traditional miners song from Mournwold

====One for the kids====

* [[Whose Pigs Are These?]] a fun round
* [[Chants for naughty children]]

====Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches====
* [[Jack in the Green]] - a song about the [[Marches Egregore]]
* [[The Culloch Boar]] - tells of the origins of the Culloch banner

====More Songs====
*[[The Unquiet Grave]]
* [[Tom A'Bedlam's song]]
* [[Ye Mariners All]] - medium drinking song
* [[Here's A Health to the Company]] - easy drinking song
* [[His Banner's Not Mine]] - medium love song
* [[Pull Down Below]] - medium shanty with chunky harmonies
* One More Day - easy shanty: [http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/showlyric.php/onemore lyrics], [http://thealbionband.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-day tune]
* [[Ten Thousand Miles]] - love song with easy harmony accomp
* [[Pretty Ploughboy]] - easy song about saving the lad you love from the war
* [[Silent Giants]] - easy song about standing stones

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Songs are usually unaccompanied in the Marches, typically sung in raucous harmony rather than using instruments. However sometimes drums, guitars, fiddles, and whistles/recorders are used. For instrumental music, look to the very heavy rhythms of trad English music (the kind of tunes used to accompany morris dancing would be perfect).

* The Chicken Dance - dance tune often brought out at hen parties and other festivities, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Chook_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Chook_dance_faster.mp3 recording]
* The Bond Ring - dance tune for weddings and other bondings, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Bond_Ring_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Bondring.mp3 recording]

====Other performance traditions====
[[Marches Tales]]

===How to adapt your repertoire===
The Marches is all about people singing ''together'' so choose songs that have a chorus, or even better, a call and response line. Nothing wrong with a bard leading a song but try to encourage participation from the people around you, even if just banging their tankards off the table. Can you turn your song into a drinking song?! Think of some harmonies ahead of time and if possible teach them to your group instead of using instrumental accompaniment. Any folk song will be fine but especially those in the themes listed above. If you are mostly a solo performer perhaps learn a few easy rounds and sing them with people between your solo numbers.

===Our sources===
* Songs: Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Muldoon's Picnic; Fisherman's Friends; Chumbawamba (the folky stuff e.g. English Rebel Songs and ABCDEFG), and number of Welsh a capella choirs; all great acapella harmony singers. Seth Lakeman (sans guitar), June Tabor.
* Tunes: Florida, Eliza Carthy
* Great list of harvest themed songs: http://piereligion.org/harvestsongs.html
* Good list of sea shanty lyrics (stick to the very English sounding ones, preferably about fishing): http://www.boundingmain.com/Lyrics.htm
* Good list of sources for English folk suitable for the Marches: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoJyPBKHsU&list=PL28D4FF038B6F4D35&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]

The Marches music

2016-06-14T18:10:59Z

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==The music of The Marches==

===Style summary===
A capella harmony singing, no-nonsense, boisterous and earthy, simple folk and morality tales, minimal instrumentation, heavy rhythms on guitars, bouzoukis or concertinas. Themes of working the land, agriculture and fishing, harvest, enjoyment of food and drink, recognition of obligation to the land and its people.

The music of the Marches is drawn primarily from the folk song traditions of Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire and Yorkshire: wassails, shanties, drinking songs, and work songs.

===Commonly known songs===

* Many people in the Marches will know one version of a [[Wassail]]
*[[Down to Earth]], a song about the importance of good earth and common sense to the Marchers!
*[[Marcher battle song]], invariably sung before battle!
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]], a harvest song (not the hymn), often sung for solidarity

===Musical traditions===
After every harvest, Marcher farmers perform a traditional ceremony, a [[Wassail]], to scare away evil spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the [[Marches Culture and Customs#Wassail|Marcher brief]].

In the Marches, misdeeds are sometimes rewarded with a public shaming using noise, music, even satirical performance of some kind, called [[Marches Culture and Customs#Rough Music|Rough Music]]. Some chants are known throughout the Marches such as those below (usually interspersed with verses detailing the misdeed), some songs/performances are written especially for the occasion!
* "Ran tan tan, raise your hand, a sin to us is a sin to the land"
* "Old Fred Thatcher (insert name of miscreant), we know your name, Old Fred Thatcher, you are to blame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your shame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your name!"

====Battle Songs====
* [[Marcher battle song]] easy song for marching into battle
* [[Rebel March]] easy song for upsetting the Dawnish (and battles)
* Yet another [[Marches Battle Song]]
* [[Marcher At My Side]] - easy song popular with soldiers in the Marcher armies

====Harvest Songs and Wassails====
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[John Barleycorn]] medium folk song
* [[Wassail]] easy call and response, and lots of versions
*[[Harvest Time]] - song about the land and Britta's lost army

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Marcher Dirge]] - a bit heretical
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars
* [[Only Remembered For What We Have Done]] - medium harmony song
* [[Lay me Low]] - medium difficulty harmony song

====Songs from Mournwold====
* [[Mournwold Harvest]] - sad song about orphaned Mournwolders
* [[Jonah Gold]] - traditional miners song from Mournwold

====One for the kids====

* [[Whose Pigs Are These?]] a fun round
* [[Chants for naughty children]]

====Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches====
* [[Jack in the Green]] - a song about the [[Marches Egregore]]
* [[The Culloch Boar]] - tells of the origins of the Culloch banner

====More Songs====
*[[The Unquiet Grave]]
* [[Tom A'Bedlam's song]]
* [[Ye Mariners All]] - medium drinking song
* [[Here's A Health to the Company]] - easy drinking song
* [[His Banner's Not Mine]] - medium love song
* [[Pull Down Below]] - medium shanty with chunky harmonies
* One More Day - easy shanty: [http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/showlyric.php/onemore lyrics], [http://thealbionband.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-day tune]
* [[Ten Thousand Miles]] - love song with easy harmony accomp
* [[Pretty Ploughboy]] - easy song about saving the lad you love from the war
* [[Silent Giants]] - easy song about standing stones

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Songs are usually unaccompanied in the Marches, typically sung in raucous harmony rather than using instruments. However sometimes drums, guitars, fiddles, and whistles/recorders are used. For instrumental music, look to the very heavy rhythms of trad English music (the kind of tunes used to accompany morris dancing would be perfect).

* The Chicken Dance - dance tune often brought out at hen parties and other festivities, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Chook_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Chook_dance_faster.mp3 recording]
* The Bond Ring - dance tune for weddings and other bondings, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Bond_Ring_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Bondring.mp3 recording]

====Other performance traditions====
[[Marches Tales]]

===How to adapt your repertoire===
The Marches is all about people singing ''together'' so choose songs that have a chorus, or even better, a call and response line. Nothing wrong with a bard leading a song but try to encourage participation from the people around you, even if just banging their tankards off the table. Can you turn your song into a drinking song?! Think of some harmonies ahead of time and if possible teach them to your group instead of using instrumental accompaniment. Any folk song will be fine but especially those in the themes listed above. If you are mostly a solo performer perhaps learn a few easy rounds and sing them with people between your solo numbers.

===Our sources===
* Songs: Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Muldoon's Picnic; Fisherman's Friends; Chumbawamba (the folky stuff e.g. English Rebel Songs and ABCDEFG), and number of Welsh a capella choirs; all great acapella harmony singers. Seth Lakeman (sans guitar), June Tabor.
* Tunes: Florida, Eliza Carthy
* Great list of harvest themed songs: http://piereligion.org/harvestsongs.html
* Good list of sea shanty lyrics (stick to the very English sounding ones, preferably about fishing): http://www.boundingmain.com/Lyrics.htm
* Good list of sources for English folk suitable for the Marches: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoJyPBKHsU&list=PL28D4FF038B6F4D35&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]

Down to Earth

2016-06-14T18:09:09Z

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[[Category: Music]]
[[Category: Marches Music]]
[[Category: The Marches]]

This song was originally written by Kit the Mummer for a ritual, Dripping Echoes of the Fen, to enchant the marshes of Bregasland against our foes. It has, since, become a general upbeat anthem.

Sheet music and recording to follow soon!

<song>
The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend
Though you may laugh, its true
Whilst you think mud is “filthy”, well
We take a different view

And when the day is o..ver
We’ll drink a glass or more,
to Marcher mud - its in our blood,
Ingrained in every pore

Chorus:
We’re down to earth, down and dirty
Down and dirty, down and dirty
Down to earth, down and dirty
Digging for victory x2

We scorn polite society
To cultivate its loyalty
And though you think it unrefined
We treat it just like royalty

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus

We strive to treat the mud with care
With lots of muck and tilling
And it repays us thousandfold -
That’s why its so fulfilling

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus

The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend
So cross us if you dare
For it shall heed our call to war!
Intruders best beware……

And when the day is o..ver etc.

Chorus
</song>

Lyrics and music by Kathryn Wheeler

The Marches music

2016-06-14T18:02:54Z

Fiddle-faddle:

==The music of The Marches==

===Style summary===
A capella harmony singing, no-nonsense, boisterous and earthy, simple folk and morality tales, minimal instrumentation, heavy rhythms on guitars, bouzoukis or concertinas. Themes of working the land, agriculture and fishing, harvest, enjoyment of food and drink, recognition of obligation to the land and its people.

The music of the Marches is drawn primarily from the folk song traditions of Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire and Yorkshire: wassails, shanties, drinking songs, and work songs.

===Commonly known songs===

* Many people in the Marches will know one version of a [[Wassail]]
*[[Down to Earth]], a song about the importance of good earth and common sense to the Marchers!
*[[Marcher battle song]]
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]], a harvest song (not the hymn)

===Musical traditions===
After every harvest, Marcher farmers perform a traditional ceremony, a [[Wassail]], to scare away evil spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the [[Marches Culture and Customs#Wassail|Marcher brief]].

In the Marches, misdeeds are sometimes rewarded with a public shaming using noise, music, even satirical performance of some kind, called [[Marches Culture and Customs#Rough Music|Rough Music]]. Some chants are known throughout the Marches such as those below (usually interspersed with verses detailing the misdeed), some songs/performances are written especially for the occasion!
* "Ran tan tan, raise your hand, a sin to us is a sin to the land"
* "Old Fred Thatcher (insert name of miscreant), we know your name, Old Fred Thatcher, you are to blame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your shame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your name!"

====Battle Songs====
* [[Marcher battle song]] easy song for marching into battle
* [[Rebel March]] easy song for upsetting the Dawnish (and battles)
* Yet another [[Marches Battle Song]]
* [[Marcher At My Side]] - easy song popular with soldiers in the Marcher armies

====Harvest Songs and Wassails====
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[John Barleycorn]] medium folk song
* [[Wassail]] easy call and response, and lots of versions
*[[Harvest Time]] - song about the land and Britta's lost army

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Marcher Dirge]] - a bit heretical
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars
* [[Only Remembered For What We Have Done]] - medium harmony song
* [[Lay me Low]] - medium difficulty harmony song

====Songs from Mournwold====
* [[Mournwold Harvest]] - sad song about orphaned Mournwolders
* [[Jonah Gold]] - traditional miners song from Mournwold

====One for the kids====

* [[Whose Pigs Are These?]] a fun round
* [[Chants for naughty children]]

====Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches====
* [[Jack in the Green]] - a song about the [[Marches Egregore]]
* [[The Culloch Boar]] - tells of the origins of the Culloch banner

====More Songs====
*[[The Unquiet Grave]]
* [[Tom A'Bedlam's song]]
* [[Ye Mariners All]] - medium drinking song
* [[Here's A Health to the Company]] - easy drinking song
* [[His Banner's Not Mine]] - medium love song
* [[Pull Down Below]] - medium shanty with chunky harmonies
* One More Day - easy shanty: [http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/showlyric.php/onemore lyrics], [http://thealbionband.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-day tune]
* [[Ten Thousand Miles]] - love song with easy harmony accomp
* [[Pretty Ploughboy]] - easy song about saving the lad you love from the war
* [[Silent Giants]] - easy song about standing stones

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Songs are usually unaccompanied in the Marches, typically sung in raucous harmony rather than using instruments. However sometimes drums, guitars, fiddles, and whistles/recorders are used. For instrumental music, look to the very heavy rhythms of trad English music (the kind of tunes used to accompany morris dancing would be perfect).

* The Chicken Dance - dance tune often brought out at hen parties and other festivities, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Chook_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Chook_dance_faster.mp3 recording]
* The Bond Ring - dance tune for weddings and other bondings, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Bond_Ring_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Bondring.mp3 recording]

====Other performance traditions====
[[Marches Tales]]

===How to adapt your repertoire===
The Marches is all about people singing ''together'' so choose songs that have a chorus, or even better, a call and response line. Nothing wrong with a bard leading a song but try to encourage participation from the people around you, even if just banging their tankards off the table. Can you turn your song into a drinking song?! Think of some harmonies ahead of time and if possible teach them to your group instead of using instrumental accompaniment. Any folk song will be fine but especially those in the themes listed above. If you are mostly a solo performer perhaps learn a few easy rounds and sing them with people between your solo numbers.

===Our sources===
* Songs: Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Muldoon's Picnic; Fisherman's Friends; Chumbawamba (the folky stuff e.g. English Rebel Songs and ABCDEFG), and number of Welsh a capella choirs; all great acapella harmony singers. Seth Lakeman (sans guitar), June Tabor.
* Tunes: Florida, Eliza Carthy
* Great list of harvest themed songs: http://piereligion.org/harvestsongs.html
* Good list of sea shanty lyrics (stick to the very English sounding ones, preferably about fishing): http://www.boundingmain.com/Lyrics.htm
* Good list of sources for English folk suitable for the Marches: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoJyPBKHsU&list=PL28D4FF038B6F4D35&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]

The Marches music

2016-06-14T17:50:00Z

Fiddle-faddle:

==The music of The Marches==

===Style summary===
A capella harmony singing, no-nonsense, boisterous and earthy, simple folk and morality tales, minimal instrumentation, heavy rhythms on guitars, bouzoukis or concertinas. Themes of working the land, agriculture and fishing, harvest, enjoyment of food and drink, recognition of obligation to the land and its people.

The music of the Marches is drawn primarily from the folk song traditions of Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire and Yorkshire: wassails, shanties, drinking songs, and work songs.

===Commonly known songs===

* Many people in the Marches will know one version of a [[Wassail]]
*[[Marcher battle song]]
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)

===Musical traditions===
After every harvest, Marcher farmers perform a traditional ceremony, a [[Wassail]], to scare away evil spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the [[Marches Culture and Customs#Wassail|Marcher brief]].

In the Marches, misdeeds are sometimes rewarded with a public shaming using noise, music, even satirical performance of some kind, called [[Marches Culture and Customs#Rough Music|Rough Music]]. Some chants are known throughout the Marches such as those below (usually interspersed with verses detailing the misdeed), some songs/performances are written especially for the occasion!
* "Ran tan tan, raise your hand, a sin to us is a sin to the land"
* "Old Fred Thatcher (insert name of miscreant), we know your name, Old Fred Thatcher, you are to blame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your shame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your name!"

====Battle Songs====
* [[Marcher battle song]] easy song for marching into battle
* [[Rebel March]] easy song for upsetting the Dawnish (and battles)
* Yet another [[Marches Battle Song]]
* [[Marcher At My Side]] - easy song popular with soldiers in the Marcher armies

====Harvest Songs and Wassails====
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[John Barleycorn]] medium folk song
* [[Wassail]] easy call and response, and lots of versions
*[[Harvest Time]] - song about the land and Britta's lost army

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Marcher Dirge]] - a bit heretical
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars
* [[Only Remembered For What We Have Done]] - medium harmony song
* [[Lay me Low]] - medium difficulty harmony song

====Songs from Mournwold====
* [[Mournwold Harvest]] - sad song about orphaned Mournwolders
* [[Jonah Gold]] - traditional miners song from Mournwold

====One for the kids====

* [[Whose Pigs Are These?]] a fun round
* [[Chants for naughty children]]

====Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches====
* [[Jack in the Green]] - a song about the [[Marches Egregore]]
* [[The Culloch Boar]] - tells of the origins of the Culloch banner

====More Songs====
*[[The Unquiet Grave]]
* [[Tom A'Bedlam's song]]
* [[Ye Mariners All]] - medium drinking song
* [[Here's A Health to the Company]] - easy drinking song
* [[His Banner's Not Mine]] - medium love song
* [[Pull Down Below]] - medium shanty with chunky harmonies
* One More Day - easy shanty: [http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/showlyric.php/onemore lyrics], [http://thealbionband.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-day tune]
* [[Ten Thousand Miles]] - love song with easy harmony accomp
* [[Pretty Ploughboy]] - easy song about saving the lad you love from the war
* [[Silent Giants]] - easy song about standing stones

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Songs are usually unaccompanied in the Marches, typically sung in raucous harmony rather than using instruments. However sometimes drums, guitars, fiddles, and whistles/recorders are used. For instrumental music, look to the very heavy rhythms of trad English music (the kind of tunes used to accompany morris dancing would be perfect).

* The Chicken Dance - dance tune often brought out at hen parties and other festivities, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Chook_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Chook_dance_faster.mp3 recording]
* The Bond Ring - dance tune for weddings and other bondings, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Bond_Ring_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Bondring.mp3 recording]

====Other performance traditions====
[[Marches Tales]]

===How to adapt your repertoire===
The Marches is all about people singing ''together'' so choose songs that have a chorus, or even better, a call and response line. Nothing wrong with a bard leading a song but try to encourage participation from the people around you, even if just banging their tankards off the table. Can you turn your song into a drinking song?! Think of some harmonies ahead of time and if possible teach them to your group instead of using instrumental accompaniment. Any folk song will be fine but especially those in the themes listed above. If you are mostly a solo performer perhaps learn a few easy rounds and sing them with people between your solo numbers.

===Our sources===
* Songs: Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Muldoon's Picnic; Fisherman's Friends; Chumbawamba (the folky stuff e.g. English Rebel Songs and ABCDEFG), and number of Welsh a capella choirs; all great acapella harmony singers. Seth Lakeman (sans guitar), June Tabor.
* Tunes: Florida, Eliza Carthy
* Great list of harvest themed songs: http://piereligion.org/harvestsongs.html
* Good list of sea shanty lyrics (stick to the very English sounding ones, preferably about fishing): http://www.boundingmain.com/Lyrics.htm
* Good list of sources for English folk suitable for the Marches: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoJyPBKHsU&list=PL28D4FF038B6F4D35&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]

The Marches music

2016-06-14T17:48:45Z

Fiddle-faddle:

==The music of The Marches==

===Style summary===
A capella harmony singing, no-nonsense, boisterous and earthy, simple folk and morality tales, minimal instrumentation, heavy rhythms on guitars, bouzoukis or concertinas. Themes of working the land, agriculture and fishing, harvest, enjoyment of food and drink, recognition of obligation to the land and its people.

The music of the Marches is drawn primarily from the folk song traditions of Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire and Yorkshire: wassails, shanties, drinking songs, and work songs.

===Commonly known songs===

* Many people in the Marches will know one version of a [[Wassail]]
*[[Marcher battle song]]
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)

===Musical traditions===
After every harvest, Marcher farmers perform a traditional ceremony, a [[Wassail]], to scare away evil spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the [[Marches Culture and Customs#Wassail|Marcher brief]].

In the Marches, misdeeds are sometimes rewarded with a public shaming using noise, music, even satirical performance of some kind, called [[Marches Culture and Customs#Rough Music|Rough Music]]. Some chants are known throughout the Marches such as those below (usually interspersed with verses detailing the misdeed), some songs/performances are written especially for the occasion!
* "Ran tan tan, raise your hand, a sin to us is a sin to the land"
* "Old Fred Thatcher (insert name of miscreant), we know your name, Old Fred Thatcher, you are to blame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your shame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your name!"

====Battle Songs====
* [[Marcher battle song]] easy song for marching into battle
* [[Rebel March]] easy song for upsetting the Dawnish (and battles)
* Yet another [[Marches Battle Song]]
* [[Marcher At My Side]] - easy song popular with soldiers in the Marcher armies
* [[The Rising of the Moon]]

====Harvest Songs and Wassails====
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[John Barleycorn]] medium folk song
* [[Wassail]] easy call and response, and lots of versions
*[[Harvest Time]] - song about the land and Britta's lost army

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Marcher Dirge]] - a bit heretical
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars
* [[Only Remembered For What We Have Done]] - medium harmony song
* [[Lay me Low]] - medium difficulty harmony song

====Songs from Mournwold====
* [[Mournwold Harvest]] - sad song about orphaned Mournwolders
* [[Jonah Gold]] - traditional miners song from Mournwold

====One for the kids====

* [[Whose Pigs Are These?]] a fun round
* [[Chants for naughty children]]

====Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches====
* [[Jack in the Green]] - a song about the [[Marches Egregore]]
* [[The Culloch Boar]] - tells of the origins of the Culloch banner

====More Songs====
*[[The Unquiet Grave]]
* [[Tom A'Bedlam's song]]
* [[Ye Mariners All]] - medium drinking song
* [[Here's A Health to the Company]] - easy drinking song
* [[His Banner's Not Mine]] - medium love song
* [[Pull Down Below]] - medium shanty with chunky harmonies
* One More Day - easy shanty: [http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/showlyric.php/onemore lyrics], [http://thealbionband.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-day tune]
* [[Ten Thousand Miles]] - love song with easy harmony accomp
* [[Pretty Ploughboy]] - easy song about saving the lad you love from the war
* [[Silent Giants]] - easy song about standing stones

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Songs are usually unaccompanied in the Marches, typically sung in raucous harmony rather than using instruments. However sometimes drums, guitars, fiddles, and whistles/recorders are used. For instrumental music, look to the very heavy rhythms of trad English music (the kind of tunes used to accompany morris dancing would be perfect).

* The Chicken Dance - dance tune often brought out at hen parties and other festivities, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Chook_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Chook_dance_faster.mp3 recording]
* The Bond Ring - dance tune for weddings and other bondings, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Bond_Ring_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Bondring.mp3 recording]

====Other performance traditions====
[[Marches Tales]]

===How to adapt your repertoire===
The Marches is all about people singing ''together'' so choose songs that have a chorus, or even better, a call and response line. Nothing wrong with a bard leading a song but try to encourage participation from the people around you, even if just banging their tankards off the table. Can you turn your song into a drinking song?! Think of some harmonies ahead of time and if possible teach them to your group instead of using instrumental accompaniment. Any folk song will be fine but especially those in the themes listed above. If you are mostly a solo performer perhaps learn a few easy rounds and sing them with people between your solo numbers.

===Our sources===
* Songs: Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Muldoon's Picnic; Fisherman's Friends; Chumbawamba (the folky stuff e.g. English Rebel Songs and ABCDEFG), and number of Welsh a capella choirs; all great acapella harmony singers. Seth Lakeman (sans guitar), June Tabor.
* Tunes: Florida, Eliza Carthy
* Great list of harvest themed songs: http://piereligion.org/harvestsongs.html
* Good list of sea shanty lyrics (stick to the very English sounding ones, preferably about fishing): http://www.boundingmain.com/Lyrics.htm
* Good list of sources for English folk suitable for the Marches: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoJyPBKHsU&list=PL28D4FF038B6F4D35&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]

The Marches music

2016-06-14T16:31:36Z

Fiddle-faddle:

==The music of The Marches==

===Style summary===
A capella harmony singing, no-nonsense, boisterous and earthy, simple folk and morality tales, minimal instrumentation, heavy rhythms on guitars, bouzoukis or concertinas. Themes of working the land, agriculture and fishing, harvest, enjoyment of food and drink, recognition of obligation to the land and its people.

The music of the Marches is drawn primarily from the folk song traditions of Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire and Yorkshire: wassails, shanties, drinking songs, and work songs.

===Commonly known songs===

* Many people in the Marches will know one version of a [[Wassail]]
*[[Marcher battle song]]
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)

====Musical traditions====
After every harvest, Marcher farmers perform a traditional ceremony, a [[Wassail]], to scare away evil spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the [[Marches Culture and Customs#Wassail|Marcher brief]].

In the Marches, misdeeds are sometimes rewarded with a public shaming using noise, music, even satirical performance of some kind, called [[Marches Culture and Customs#Rough Music|Rough Music]]. Some chants are known throughout the Marches such as those below (usually interspersed with verses detailing the misdeed), some songs/performances are written especially for the occasion!
* "Ran tan tan, raise your hand, a sin to us is a sin to the land"
* "Old Fred Thatcher (insert name of miscreant), we know your name, Old Fred Thatcher, you are to blame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your shame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your name!"

====Battle Songs====
* [[Marcher battle song]] easy song for marching into battle
* [[Rebel March]] easy song for upsetting the Dawnish (and battles)
* Yet another [[Marches Battle Song]]
* [[Marcher At My Side]] - easy song popular with soldiers in the Marcher armies
* [[The Rising of the Moon]]

====Harvest Songs and Wassails====
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[John Barleycorn]] medium folk song
* [[Wassail]] easy call and response, and lots of versions
*[[Harvest Time]] - song about the land and Britta's lost army

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Marcher Dirge]] - a bit heretical
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars
* [[Only Remembered For What We Have Done]] - medium harmony song
* [[Lay me Low]] - medium difficulty harmony song

====Songs from Mournwold====
* [[Mournwold Harvest]] - sad song about orphaned Mournwolders
* [[Jonah Gold]] - traditional miners song from Mournwold

====One for the kids====

* [[Whose Pigs Are These?]] a fun round
* [[Chants for naughty children]]

====Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches====
* [[Jack in the Green]] - a song about the [[Marches Egregore]]
* [[The Culloch Boar]] - tells of the origins of the Culloch banner

====More Songs====
*[[The Unquiet Grave]]
* [[Tom A'Bedlam's song]]
* [[Ye Mariners All]] - medium drinking song
* [[Here's A Health to the Company]] - easy drinking song
* [[His Banner's Not Mine]] - medium love song
* [[Pull Down Below]] - medium shanty with chunky harmonies
* One More Day - easy shanty: [http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/showlyric.php/onemore lyrics], [http://thealbionband.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-day tune]
* [[Ten Thousand Miles]] - love song with easy harmony accomp
* [[Pretty Ploughboy]] - easy song about saving the lad you love from the war
* [[Silent Giants]] - easy song about standing stones

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Songs are usually unaccompanied in the Marches, typically sung in raucous harmony rather than using instruments. However sometimes drums, guitars, fiddles, and whistles/recorders are used. For instrumental music, look to the very heavy rhythms of trad English music (the kind of tunes used to accompany morris dancing would be perfect).

* The Chicken Dance - dance tune often brought out at hen parties and other festivities, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Chook_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Chook_dance_faster.mp3 recording]
* The Bond Ring - dance tune for weddings and other bondings, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Bond_Ring_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Bondring.mp3 recording]

====Other performance traditions====
[[Marches Tales]]

===How to adapt your repertoire===
The Marches is all about people singing ''together'' so choose songs that have a chorus, or even better, a call and response line. Nothing wrong with a bard leading a song but try to encourage participation from the people around you, even if just banging their tankards off the table. Can you turn your song into a drinking song?! Think of some harmonies ahead of time and if possible teach them to your group instead of using instrumental accompaniment. Any folk song will be fine but especially those in the themes listed above. If you are mostly a solo performer perhaps learn a few easy rounds and sing them with people between your solo numbers.

===Our sources===
* Songs: Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Muldoon's Picnic; Fisherman's Friends; Chumbawamba (the folky stuff e.g. English Rebel Songs and ABCDEFG), and number of Welsh a capella choirs; all great acapella harmony singers. Seth Lakeman (sans guitar), June Tabor.
* Tunes: Florida, Eliza Carthy
* Great list of harvest themed songs: http://piereligion.org/harvestsongs.html
* Good list of sea shanty lyrics (stick to the very English sounding ones, preferably about fishing): http://www.boundingmain.com/Lyrics.htm
* Good list of sources for English folk suitable for the Marches: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoJyPBKHsU&list=PL28D4FF038B6F4D35&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]

The Marches music

2016-06-14T16:20:25Z

Fiddle-faddle:

==The music of The Marches==

===Style summary===
A capella harmony singing, no-nonsense, boisterous and earthy, simple folk and morality tales, minimal instrumentation, heavy rhythms on guitars, bouzoukis or concertinas. Themes of working the land, agriculture and fishing, harvest, enjoyment of food and drink, recognition of obligation to the land and its people.

The music of the Marches is drawn primarily from the folk song traditions of Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire and Yorkshire: wassails, shanties, drinking songs, and work songs.

===Commonly known songs===

* Many people in the Marches will know one version of a [[Wassail]]
*[[Marcher battle song]]
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)

====Musical traditions====
After every harvest, Marcher farmers perform a traditional ceremony, a [[Wassail]], to scare away evil spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the [[Marches Culture and Customs#Wassail|Marcher brief]].

In the Marches, misdeeds are sometimes rewarded with a public shaming using noise, music, even satirical performance of some kind, called [[Marches Culture and Customs#Rough Music|Rough Music]]. Some chants are known throughout the Marches such as those below (usually interspersed with verses detailing the misdeed), some songs/performances are written especially for the occasion!
* "Ran tan tan, raise your hand, a sin to us is a sin to the land"
* "Old Fred Thatcher (insert name of miscreant), we know your name, Old Fred Thatcher, you are to blame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your shame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your name!"

====One for the kids====

* [[Whose Pigs Are These?]] a fun round
* [[Chants for naughty children]]

====Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches====
* [[Jack in the Green]] - a song about the [[Marches Egregore]]
* [[The Culloch Boar]] - tells of the origins of the Culloch banner

===Further examples===

====Battle Songs====
* [[Marcher battle song]] easy song for marching into battle
* [[Rebel March]] easy song for upsetting the Dawnish (and battles)
* Yet another [[Marches Battle Song]]
* [[Marcher At My Side]] - easy song popular with soldiers in the Marcher armies
* [[The Rising of the Moon]]

====Harvest Songs and Wassails====
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[John Barleycorn]] medium folk song
* [[Wassail]] easy call and response, and lots of versions
*[[Harvest Time]] - song about the land and Britta's lost army

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Marcher Dirge]] - a bit heretical
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars
* [[Only Remembered For What We Have Done]] - medium harmony song
* [[Lay me Low]] - medium difficulty harmony song

====Songs from Mournwold====
* [[Mournwold Harvest]] - sad song about orphaned Mournwolders
* [[Jonah Gold]] - traditional miners song from Mournwold

====More Songs====
*[[The Unquiet Grave]]
* [[Tom A'Bedlam's song]]
* [[Ye Mariners All]] - medium drinking song
* [[Here's A Health to the Company]] - easy drinking song
* [[His Banner's Not Mine]] - medium love song
* [[Pull Down Below]] - medium shanty with chunky harmonies
* One More Day - easy shanty: [http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/showlyric.php/onemore lyrics], [http://thealbionband.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-day tune]
* [[Ten Thousand Miles]] - love song with easy harmony accomp
* [[Pretty Ploughboy]] - easy song about saving the lad you love from the war
* [[Silent Giants]] - easy song about standing stones

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Songs are usually unaccompanied in the Marches, typically sung in raucous harmony rather than using instruments. However sometimes drums, guitars, fiddles, and whistles/recorders are used. For instrumental music, look to the very heavy rhythms of trad English music (the kind of tunes used to accompany morris dancing would be perfect).

* The Chicken Dance - dance tune often brought out at hen parties and other festivities, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Chook_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Chook_dance_faster.mp3 recording]
* The Bond Ring - dance tune for weddings and other bondings, by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Bond_Ring_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Bondring.mp3 recording]

====Other performance traditions====
[[Marches Tales]]

===How to adapt your repertoire===
The Marches is all about people singing ''together'' so choose songs that have a chorus, or even better, a call and response line. Nothing wrong with a bard leading a song but try to encourage participation from the people around you, even if just banging their tankards off the table. Can you turn your song into a drinking song?! Think of some harmonies ahead of time and if possible teach them to your group instead of using instrumental accompaniment. Any folk song will be fine but especially those in the themes listed above. If you are mostly a solo performer perhaps learn a few easy rounds and sing them with people between your solo numbers.

===Our sources===
* Songs: Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Muldoon's Picnic; Fisherman's Friends; Chumbawamba (the folky stuff e.g. English Rebel Songs and ABCDEFG), and number of Welsh a capella choirs; all great acapella harmony singers. Seth Lakeman (sans guitar), June Tabor.
* Tunes: Florida, Eliza Carthy
* Great list of harvest themed songs: http://piereligion.org/harvestsongs.html
* Good list of sea shanty lyrics (stick to the very English sounding ones, preferably about fishing): http://www.boundingmain.com/Lyrics.htm
* Good list of sources for English folk suitable for the Marches: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoJyPBKHsU&list=PL28D4FF038B6F4D35&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]

The Marches music

2016-06-14T15:26:30Z

Fiddle-faddle:

==The music of The Marches==

===Style summary===
A capella harmony singing, no-nonsense, boisterous and earthy, simple folk and morality tales, minimal instrumentation, heavy rhythms on guitars, bouzoukis or concertinas. Themes of working the land, agriculture and fishing, harvest, enjoyment of food and drink, recognition of obligation to the land and its people.

The music of the Marches is drawn primarily from the folk song traditions of Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire and Yorkshire: wassails, shanties, drinking songs, and work songs.

===Commonly known songs===

* Many people in the Marches will know one version of a [[Wassail]]
*[[Marcher battle song]]
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars

====Musical traditions====
After every harvest, Marcher farmers perform a traditional ceremony, a [[Wassail]], to scare away evil spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the [[Marches Culture and Customs#Wassail|Marcher brief]].

In the Marches, misdeeds are sometimes rewarded with a public shaming using noise, music, even satirical performance of some kind, called [[Marches Culture and Customs#Rough Music|Rough Music]]. Some chants are known throughout the Marches such as those below (usually interspersed with verses detailing the misdeed), some songs/performances are written especially for the occasion!
* "Ran tan tan, raise your hand, a sin to us is a sin to the land"
* "Old Fred Thatcher (insert name of miscreant), we know your name, Old Fred Thatcher, you are to blame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your shame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your name!"

====One for the kids====

* [[Whose Pigs Are These?]] a fun round
* [[Chants for naughty children]]

====Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches====
* [[Jack in the Green]] - a song about the [[Marches Egregore]]
* [[The Culloch Boar]] - tells of the origins of the Culloch banner
* [[Bolholt Song]] - celebrates the Bolholt house
* [[Gallant Archer]] - song about William Archer and his part in rescuing three of the Cullochs
* [[Men of Fenrose]] - sung by and in honour of the soldiers of Cabot's Company

===Further examples===

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Lay me Low]] - medium difficulty harmony song
* [[Marcher Dirge]] - a bit heretical
* [[Only Remembered For What We Have Done]] - medium harmony song
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars

====Battle Anthems====
* [[Marcher battle song]] easy song for marching into battle
* [[Rebel March]] easy song for upsetting the Dawnish (and battles)
* Yet another [[Marches Battle Song]]
* [[The Rising of the Moon]]

====Harvest Songs and Wassails====
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[John Barleycorn]] medium folk song
* [[Wassail]] easy call and response, and lots of versions
*[[Harvest Time]] - song about the land and Britta's lost army

====Songs from Mournwold====
* [[Mournwold Harvest]] - sad song about orphaned Mournwolders
* [[Jonah Gold]] - traditional miners song from Mournwold

====More Songs====
*[[The Unquiet Grave]]
* [[Tom A'Bedlam's song]]
* [[Ye Mariners All]] - medium drinking song
* [[Here's A Health to the Company]] - easy drinking song
* [[His Banner's Not Mine]] - medium love song
* [[Pull Down Below]] - medium shanty with chunky harmonies
* One More Day - easy shanty: [http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/showlyric.php/onemore lyrics], [http://thealbionband.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-day tune]
* [[Ten Thousand Miles]] - love song with easy harmony accomp
* [[Pretty Ploughboy]] - easy song about saving the lad you love from the war
* [[Silent Giants]] - easy song about standing stones
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars
* [[Marcher At My Side]] - easy song popular with soldiers in the Marcher armies

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Songs are usually unaccompanied in the Marches, typically sung in raucous harmony rather than using instruments. However sometimes drums, guitars, fiddles, and whistles/recorders are used. For instrumental music, look to the very heavy rhythms of trad English music (the kind of tunes used to accompany morris dancing would be perfect).

* [[Kalenda Maya]] - More commonly known in the Marches as The Month of May. A tune sometimes used for Marches dances, typically rather rowdy affairs!
* The Chook Dance - dance tune by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Chook_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Chook_dance_faster.mp3 recording]
* The Bond Ring - dance tune by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Bond_Ring_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Bondring.mp3 recording]

====Other performance traditions====
[[Marches Tales]]

===How to adapt your repertoire===
The Marches is all about people singing ''together'' so choose songs that have a chorus, or even better, a call and response line. Nothing wrong with a bard leading a song but try to encourage participation from the people around you, even if just banging their tankards off the table. Can you turn your song into a drinking song?! Think of some harmonies ahead of time and if possible teach them to your group instead of using instrumental accompaniment. Any folk song will be fine but especially those in the themes listed above. If you are mostly a solo performer perhaps learn a few easy rounds and sing them with people between your solo numbers.

===Our sources===
* Songs: Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Muldoon's Picnic; Fisherman's Friends; Chumbawamba (the folky stuff e.g. English Rebel Songs and ABCDEFG), and number of Welsh a capella choirs; all great acapella harmony singers. Seth Lakeman (sans guitar), June Tabor.
* Tunes: Florida, Eliza Carthy
* Great list of harvest themed songs: http://piereligion.org/harvestsongs.html
* Good list of sea shanty lyrics (stick to the very English sounding ones, preferably about fishing): http://www.boundingmain.com/Lyrics.htm
* Good list of sources for English folk suitable for the Marches: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoJyPBKHsU&list=PL28D4FF038B6F4D35&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

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