The Watersons - In The Good Old Way

[steandrews1]

It was the watersons that got me back into folk music and songs after a break of near 20 years . we sung Hal and tow in a mummers play we did in open door theater co. we were doing "The Fool" by Edward Bond.

[daveinards]

Absolute magic. The greatest English folk group ever.

I became a fan in the 1960's and now YouTube has rekindled my interest. A thousand thanks you's to all the contributors.  Brilliant.

[TattieB]

For many years I thought this was a gospel song, and sang it as such. Only recently found out that it was presumed to be an English Civil war song

[TheRoge43]

Awsome!!!

[usagoodbyeisayhello]

Wonderful stuff!

[Bobbo293]

Listening to this wonderful song and performance put me onto Sacred Harp and "shape-note" singing from the American church. Fantastic stuff, and one of the great things about youtube is that it lcan ink you to other performers/styles

[kajlith]

supposed to be an old ranter tune according to a member of an english civil war group i met and sang with recently.

[ArtemusWard]

I hadn''t heard of the Watersons before, and discovered this while looking for something else here. Outstanding! I'll be getting acquainted with a lot more of their work. Thanks for posting.

[MorrisManDanceMan]

brilliant  thanks

[yugster78]

Give st gorgoge some fighting room!!

[yugster78]

Were are all the

albion heroes wearing all the suites of fine

???

[yugster78]

POsibley best emaple of English folk!!!

[yugster78]

Some one post b;ancy straw seventten come sunday!!!!

[guywolff]

I love Martin on this one .. Just amazing intervals in here . Always an inspiration .. !! Thanks for a lifetime of making my pottery shop full of great sound . . Guy

[CarthyOnline]

Err, "The Good Old Way", surely? And not sung by the line-up in the picture. Apart from that, perfect!

[crlcripps]

No, it sounds an awful lot like Martin Carthy is in there, not John Harrison. Shows off Mike's voice well, though. I like the group better post-Carthy - he gave a better "bottom" to the group, anchoring the women's voices nicely.

[davidtreadmill]

nice - thanks