Show of Hands "The Blue Cockade"

[1SunMusic]

Show of Hands are the best band around. So many good songs and excellent live.

[edwards21416]

i hope he isnt friends with Billy Bragg he hates the British flag

[miixeddupp]

Miranda has a beautiful voice. Gives me chills.

Show of Hands are amazing, so inspirational. Their songs are in a different league completely.

14 year old Show of Hands fan and proud!

[wessex4eva]

Beautiful old Dorset song.

[TOBERT001]

Wow. This is fantastic. SoH magnificent live.

Love the bit where Miranda sings.............

[Maysey1]

Great folk songs performed like this reminds me why I fell in love with writing songs and playing guitar. GREAT VERSION! I am wanting to cover this real soon and this video helped me understand the phrasing of these intelligent lyrics that tell a very good story while sharing a bit of history. Thank you for posting this! Mark

[TheTrudilou]

He wrote it and he won't thank peeps for claiming otherwise!

[jonessm50]

Beautiful song whatever the origin.

[selig50]

This version was collected in Beaminster, Dorset, UK in 1904. I know that Ms Rusby does a Yorkshire version.

[oggiesnr]

The words are native to the North of England and it wsa traditionally called the White Cockade. There is also a Jacobite song of the same name with very different words.

[zoemum24]

A beautiful, beautiful song - particularly good live. Not entirely sure it's actually irish tho - many great folk songs aren't as it's not actually compulsary!

[Irelandhasmyheart]

My favorite Version!!

[crlcripps]

Not at all sure, indeed. There was a lot of cross-fertilisation over the years. It wasn't only in the sixties that English soldiers went to Ireland, heard Irish songs and brought them back, whilst trading their own English tunes in exchange. A good song is a good song, no matter its birthplace. Lovely version here, though.

[Horxata]

Beeaaauuuttifuuul!!!

What a group of musicians!!

Good video work, by the way;

no shaking and crazy zooming in & out.

Lovely.

Thank you.

[killiekentman]

try SOH web site. they have all cds and dvds. i bought a few. hope this helps my friend. Ray

[h1lleard]

awesome last night at Hull!

[DanPat121]

Spine-Tingling.  I wish there was an American band that could touch this.

[guitargenius1234]

No offence but America will NEVER be able to recreate this style of music because it is inspired solely by the west country and Irish culture etc. Love this song, one of my favourite from SOH.

[DanPat121]

Believe me, I know.  That's what sucks for people like me who have ex-pat parents and want to see this style of music travel across the pond.

[Irelandhasmyheart]

I agree with you Guitargenius. There are many local Irish bands near my home. I think the one that is best is the one that most of members have been to Ireland. So it has more meaning to them and more feeling to the songs.

[jonbomm]

No offence taken but I have to ask...Where do you think we Americans came from. We didn't just spring up out of the ground one day. Many of us can trace our roots. Some of mine came from Liverpool. Others from North Wales trying to make a better life for themselves. Doesn't mean we've forgotten where we're from.

[t4texas]

Try the version on Roots:The Best of Show of Hands.

Bloody great!! The whole compilation!! Brilliant!!

[Mickyfyn]

Awesome

[hhhopeee]

Show of hands will always be one of the best live bands I've ever seen, and I've seen quite a few!

[Pablo668]

What a song, what a performance.....speechless.

[nickclass5]

I first saw Show of Hands about 22 years ago in Guernsey and have loved their stuff ever since. While some of their other tracks are better known - Country Jack, Roots etc. - perhaps because they are songs with a (soft) political message about Cornwall/ West Country issues I still think this is a beautiful song. Simple but fantastic. Cheers to Steve and Phil.

[h1lleard]

*cousin Jack :P

[tvargan]

I like their traditional stuff best, like this.

[NixonMcvicar]

Absolutely stunning.

[killiekentman]

getting the chance to go and see them live soon. only heard them last year on youtube. donk ask where ive been as i dont know.? great band. ive got the cds and dvd.

[SUPERKENDO77]

wonderful!!!!!

[Sophiaih]

The Tall Ships medley is the best there is and i would like to see the long version

[cren123]

wonderful, wonderful wonderful, I never tire of listening to this

[ferrydave]

wonderfull...best iv heard of this number

[themidnightlady]

Looking forward to seeing them at the Fairport concert in Birmingham

[murrmac]

This video hangs up at 59 seconds every time I try to play it.

Video glitch, or my computer ?

[murrmac]

it was my computer. too much other stuff online at the same time. closed everything down, deleted temp files and restarted, works fine.

Great song, great performance.

[TrishRoberts3]

fantastic...great memory of one of THE best tours.