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After the Cut (A Mini Podcast) #1

by Jon Wilks

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For VIP Bandcamp Subscribers only, this is a mini 12-minute podcast talking about post-album conundrums - an audio diary, if you will. It includes a very rough recording of "Lofty Tall Ship" or "Henry Martin" [Roud 104, Child 250]. This isn't a song that's in my repertoire, and is not likely to end up there as it is sung by other friends of mine in far more striking ways, but I love it very much and can't stop playing it around the house at the moment. This mini-podcast gives me a change to scratch that itch. Do let me know what you think in the comments section.

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As we were gone sailing five cold frosty nights,
Five cold frosty nights and four days,
Before we did spy there a lofty tall ship,
She come bearing down on us, brave boys.

"Oh where are you going, you lofty tall ship?
What makes you to venture so nigh?
For I have turned robbing all on the salt sea
To maintain my two brothers and I."

"Then heave on your courses and let go your main sheets
And bring yourself under my lee.
And I will take from you your rich merchant's goods, merchant's goods,
And I'll point your bow guns to the sea."

"No, not heave up my courses nor let go my main sheets
Nor let her come under your lee.
Nor you will take from me my rich merchant's goods, merchant's goods,
Nor you'll point my bow guns to the sea."

Now broadside and broadside these vessels they went,
They were fighting four hours or more.
Till Henry Martin gave to her a broadside
And she sank and she never rose more.

Sad news, Henry Martin, sad news I've to tell,
Sad news it is going around.
Of a lofty tall ship and she's cast away
And the whole of her merry men drowned.

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released March 21, 2021
Traditional, arranged by Jon Wilks

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Jon Wilks Whitchurch, UK

'The sort of performer folk circles mean when they talk of the living tradition' - Mike Davies, Folking.com

“One of the best of the New Wave of Folk Blokes. As a guitar player and arranger of traditional songs, Jon Wilks already deserves speaking of in the same breath as your Simpsons and your Morays.” – Ian A. Anderson, fRoots Mag
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