Pentangle - Sovay

[MignonJuju]

Beautiful! My thanks to you for posting this. I was looking up old folk songs, and this is the first time I've heard Pentangle. I believe I've found a new favorite!

[nikadros]

An 18th century English folk song revived by Bert Lloyd in the 1950s and recorded by Martin Carthy some years later. I find Pentangle's version very appealing, especially the modal guitar arrangement. It's one of their first songs I heard and have been listening to it, untiring, for nearly 40 years!

[TemAnimal]

Oh, I love it so much! And i've got a book, called Celia Rees: Sovay. On the first page, she writed down this ballade.

[jak855]

Love this tune! Wonderful, witty, wicked twist at the end. The Pentangle is one of my favorites. What talent! Thank you for posting this.

[SupernalOne]

I have their first LP, the one with "Thyme" and "Pentangling" -- I was a tennager wihen my sister played their album for me, and I've liked them ever since (but not followed their careers) - nice they are still together. The jazz rhythm section really made a difference, acoustic jazz underl

[ultraworld99]

That "very repetitive" and "charmingly primitive melody" is called history and culture stretching back 1000's of years, something which western culture in Australia could only dream of having. :)

[BubCar2]

It's an English song about a roving thief (highwayman) who was actually a woman dressed up as a man. Here she confronts her boyfriend in this disguise, and tests his faithfulness by demanding he hand over the ring she gave him. The name "Sovay" is probably derived from "Sophie" or similar. This is an example of the kind of very repetitive but charmingly "primitive" melody found in a lot of surviving English folk songs, with a strong emphasis on tonic and dominant notes.

[722erodz]

French? please tell me?

[ladysonja]

Hello, Pentangle are a British folk rock band with some jazz influences. Greetings from Portugal.