798. Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender (Child 73) - live at The Canny Man скачать видео бесплатно

One of the best known English and Scottish ballads collected by Francis James Child. This one is a very dramatic story of love and murder, with the stock ending of the shared grave - in this case a threesome. The verses where Ellen insults the brown girl and thus gives more motivation for the killing may be an American addition. Jean Ritchie wrote about this as a popular song in the Appalachians.

I have uploaded a video of this song before, but I sang it recently at a session of the Hong Kong Folk Society at The Canny Man in Wanchai so thought I would put up this live version.

This song is also on my first CD: "AXIS OF EVIL and other True Stories."

Lyrics and chords of this song can be found here: http://www.raymondfolk.com/page/Lord+Thomas+and+Fair+Ellender+%28Child+73%29

For a playlist of all my a capella songs:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E81659B9EA983BB2

You can also watch a playlist of my renditions of the Child ballads:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B2D0D5657EA394E4

For lyrics and chords of all my songs, please see my website:

http://raymondfolk.wikifoundry.com