In Good King Arthur's Day

I was very recently sent a beautiful "teardrop" mountain dulcimer by a gifted luthier in Baltimore called Dave Sewell. This is my very first (crude) attempt at an outing on the instrument in D-A-A tuning, with a guitar backing. The tune is from an old English folk song (also called "Three Jolly Rogues Of Lynn") about a miller, a weaver and a tailor - who go to the bad!

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Tags:

• Will
• Fly
• Appalachian
• mountain
• teardrop
• dulcimer
• fingerpicking
• acoustic
• guitar
• English
• traditional
• folk
• music

[Blacksquareable]

This is really lovely. Not inspired by the Roger Nicholson version by any chance?

[HenfieldWill]

@Blacksquareable Yes - absolutely inspired by Roger's version! (I also sing it with guitar in the same style). I love his "Nonesuch For Dulcimer" album with Bob Johnson on guitar. I was in correspondence with Roger a few months before his death - a sad loss (he'd been in poor health for many years) and it's a huge shame that he died so young. An inspiration to many of us. :-)

[Pangael]

I know this tune as 'Good Old Colony Days' or 'The Jolly Rogues of Lynn', both likely borrowed from this tune.

Great version!

[HenfieldWill]

@Pangael Yes - they're all related! :-)

[HookSilverSparrow]

I also know another version of this called 'King Arthur had Three Sons.' Ever heard it?

[HenfieldWill]

No - this is the only version I know... :-)

[ThePeterTfromG]

A cheerful tune : brings to mind a round called 'Whose pigs are these?'

[anthrop0phobe]

luvvly, thank you :)

[dustyturtle]

Very pretty. Thanks. You get an amazing bass response from that dulcimer.

[SuzeyCue]

Beautiful!