A Place Called England - June Tabor - A Quiet Eye (1999)

[billjoe39]

Great song and lyrics !

[UndineDownie]

Lovely arrangement, but I'd love to see Maggie Hollands' version on youtube, too...

[BeautifulSoulgurl]

:) My British Grammy would love this if she was alive she immigrated from Liverpool with her parents 1898 Love ya Grammy Lillian RIP ty for my heritage

[Davedemocrat]

Would you prefer long live olde England.....The sooner the politically correct social worker Europhiles find a cliff to throw themselves off the better.....I am English and proud of my heritage and culture, sick of seeing it cheapened by the non English who choose to live here and criticise this wonderful country and educated arseholes who still live inthe unreal world of universityland

[FENNYMAN]

@Davedemocrat That doesn't leave many - no "politically correct", "social workers", "Europhiles", "non-English" , "universityland" (whatever all that stuff means). Soon it would only be you left. Mind you, your name "David" is hardly "English". What's your surname & we can look for that. Have you ever looked at your family tree? Probably like most people, like me - mongrel and proud of it.

[Davedemocrat]

@FENNYMAN Traced back to 1120....is that English enough for you? I was merely passing comment that all of the current standards and lack of moral and nationalist backbone in this country which has been expounded by the so called educated elite means nothing to a true Englishman,,,,They are entitled to their opinion as I am to mine,..it is the plebs of this country who have spilled blood sweat and tears making it what it is, for that I am eternally grateful...........

[FENNYMAN]

A wonderful song celebrating what is good about England. It is not a xenophobic anthem. It is an England for ordinary people (look up "Diggers" to discover what it is actually about).

[Anekantavad]

@FENNYMAN This Irishman has always had a fondness for the England described in this song, and I'm not afraid to say it :-)

[FENNYMAN]

@Anekantavad why should you be afraid? Good on you!

[Anekantavad]

@FENNYMAN Time to bury the old grudges. The healing has been going on for a while, but the Queen's visit cemented it. There's no going back now :-)

[flatus69]

Brilliant message/songsmithing.Now,may we please have a song with this poignancy that pertains to what's going on here in the US?

[Davedemocrat]

Cousin Jack is another SOH classic, gritty lyrics about modern England,politicians should hold their heads in shame.... Rule Brittania

[FENNYMAN]

@Davedemocrat "Rule Britannia"????? that's no kind of attitude for the 21st century.

[jessilu]

This is superb couldn't have put it better myself June.

You all may like to listen to Show of Hands ''roots'', sung in a similar vein on a similar subject!

[gaspode18]

@jessilu Except that 'Roots' is nationalistic garbage.

[autobren]

thta's one classy tune, and some poignant lyrics.

[flatus69]

Masterpiece.