Babylon Is Fallen

Traditional song performed by the Merry Wives of Windsor. Filmed at the Grove of Anaheim in 2007.

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• Merry
• Wives
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• Windsor
• Folk
• Irish
• Celtic
• women
• female
• band
• traditional

[panthercreek60]

Ah!!!! Harpies are, in fact real!! J/K, y'all

[malfunctioninghero]

That one person couldn't stand the quality, little did they know of how rare Merry Wives is on Youtube and forever regrets the decision...

[ClaireConrad]

Shape-note tradition allows for either gender to sing any of the four vocal parts. These women preserve the robustness and even the traditional early lead-in pickup note in the bass part. (We can ignore that it is not totally a capella, because the only instrument is percussion.) However, they transpose verses 2 and 3, just in case anyone should be confused.

[muldoonspicnic]

Great stuff, but "traditional song" is a bit misleading. It was written by Prof William E Chute of Ontario in1878 and has appeared in various shapenote tunebooks since, eg on p117 of the Sacred Harp (1991 ed).

[inregionecaecorum]

Well I seen a few videos on this, and the genuine traditional, the revival and neo.

All of it derives I think from folk tradition and a capella singing, don't even need the shape notes, you just sing and that is what it sounds like.

[disastercat2012]

Very powerful, wow

[midwestgal8]

very neo-shapenote, but in the spirit of sacred harp, down to the anticipated pickup note.

[merimbe]

What a powerful arrangement!

[bibliosaurus]

so well done!

[tinasattler1]

i love this