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The Folk Orc Repertoire #4 - Turtle Dove

The song in the booklet is called 'The Turtle Dove' and is noted as being a Dorset Folk Song. Which means that H. E. D. Hammond - who is cited as having collected the song - 'collected' it in Dorset. What we mean by 'collected' is that he heard it sung by someone and wrote it down. This has always been one of the most fascinating parts of the story of traditional folk music in this country. Around the beginning of the twentieth century, 1904 or there abouts, you had a group of well educated men roaming the country, listening to farmers, labourers, drunks in pubs and women hanging out their washing, singing songs that they would mostly have learnt by ear from previous generations. These educated men then dutifully wrote down what they heard and it is thanks to them doing this that we still have so many folk songs to choose from. The Hammond brothers spent a lot of time collecting songs around dorset at this time. Here is a version of mine: Read more at: folkorc.co.uk If you have enjoyed this vid then please support here: https://ko-fi.com/chrisjbarberhopgood