#roud — Public Fediverse posts
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"Scarborough Fair" (#Roud 12, #Child 2) is a traditional Northern English #ballad. The song lists a number of #impossibleTasks given to a former lover who lives in #ScarboroughNorthYorkshire. The "Scarborough/Whittingham Fair" variant was most common in Yorkshire and #Northumbria, where it was sung to various melodies, often using #DorianMode, with refrains resembling "#parsley, #sage, #rosemary and #thyme".
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"Scarborough Fair" (#Roud 12, #Child 2) is a traditional Northern English #ballad. The song lists a number of #impossibleTasks given to a former lover who lives in #ScarboroughNorthYorkshire. The "Scarborough/Whittingham Fair" variant was most common in Yorkshire and #Northumbria, where it was sung to various melodies, often using #DorianMode, with refrains resembling "#parsley, #sage, #rosemary and #thyme".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY-TNeJ_gJM -
"Scarborough Fair" (#Roud 12, #Child 2) is a traditional Northern English #ballad. The song lists a number of #impossibleTasks given to a former lover who lives in #ScarboroughNorthYorkshire. The "Scarborough/Whittingham Fair" variant was most common in Yorkshire and #Northumbria, where it was sung to various melodies, often using #DorianMode, with refrains resembling "#parsley, #sage, #rosemary and #thyme".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY-TNeJ_gJM -
"Scarborough Fair" (#Roud 12, #Child 2) is a traditional Northern English #ballad. The song lists a number of #impossibleTasks given to a former lover who lives in #ScarboroughNorthYorkshire. The "Scarborough/Whittingham Fair" variant was most common in Yorkshire and #Northumbria, where it was sung to various melodies, often using #DorianMode, with refrains resembling "#parsley, #sage, #rosemary and #thyme".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY-TNeJ_gJM -
"Scarborough Fair" (#Roud 12, #Child 2) is a traditional Northern English #ballad. The song lists a number of #impossibleTasks given to a former lover who lives in #ScarboroughNorthYorkshire. The "Scarborough/Whittingham Fair" variant was most common in Yorkshire and #Northumbria, where it was sung to various melodies, often using #DorianMode, with refrains resembling "#parsley, #sage, #rosemary and #thyme".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY-TNeJ_gJM -
"Roll, Jordan, Roll" (#Roud 6697), also "Roll, Jordan", is a #spiritual created by enslaved African Americans, developed from a song written by #IsaacWatts in the 18th century which became well known among #slaves in the United States during the 19th century. Appropriated as a coded message for escape, by the end of the #AmericanCivilWar it had become known through much of the eastern United States. In the 19th century, it #helped inspire #blues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM15iIE_S_Y -
"I'll Fly Away"(#Roud 18437) is a hymn written in 1929 by #AlbertEBrumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message. Brumley's writing was influenced by the 1924 secular #ballad "#ThePrisonersSong". "#IllFlyAway" has been called the most recorded #gospel song. It is frequently used in worship services by #Baptists, #Pentecostals, #Nazarenes, the #ChurchesOfChrist and many Presbyterians and #Methodists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJWgpljckbA -
"I'll Fly Away"(#Roud 18437) is a hymn written in 1929 by #AlbertEBrumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message. Brumley's writing was influenced by the 1924 secular #ballad "#ThePrisonersSong". "#IllFlyAway" has been called the most recorded #gospel song. It is frequently used in worship services by #Baptists, #Pentecostals, #Nazarenes, the #ChurchesOfChrist and many Presbyterians and #Methodists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_GRfzKPie8