Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick.King Henry

[mouldybear]

Love it.

[CarthyOnline]

Martin's sleeve note on this song (part one):

"There are the clearest echoes of the beautiful Jeannie Ritchie family song Nottamun Town in When I Was A Little Boy. They’re called “songs of lies” and are a very old idea – an idea assumed with huge effect by Bob Dylan in his epic Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall...."

[CarthyOnline]

Martin's sleeve note on this song (part two):

"...It’s from just about as far north as you can get in Scotland without drowning and the singer, John Stickle from Baltasound on Unst in the Shetlands, who sang many beautiful and unusual songs for Patrick Shuldham Shaw, was also possessed of a wonderful repertoire of fiddle tunes."

[MrAprilJimmy]

Great footage! Thanks

[CarthyOnline]

This is called "When I Was a Little Boy" and it's on the Carthy & Swarb album "Straws In The Wind" from 2006. Martin's version of "King Henry" (totally unrelated as far as I can tell) is on "Sweet Wivelsfield" from 1974, sung to a version of the tune "Bonaparte's Retreat".

[Fibbing01]

No, this isn't the song "King Henry" that I'm familiar with.

[pjotr60dvd]

@Fibbing01 This the melody as sung by Steeleye Span.

[minwav]

Martin did a version of this melody to the words of King Henry.

[guiness195]

Great music and two big musicians!

The tune is called "King Henry", right?