Tim Kent sings Bedlam Boys and Banks of the Bann at The Willows Folk Club,.wmv

Tim Kent, professional musician living in Sussex, performs two traditional folk songs at The Willows Folk Club, Arundel, West Sussex on Wednesday 30th June 2010. Both these songs are played on a low-octave Leyanda guitar which Tim has cherished since '84. The Bedlam Boys has for many years been among Tim's most requested and this video is "the full pour" for "haileymon". Many different words abound but here are Tim's.
V1.For to see mad Tom of Bedlam ten thousand miles I'd travel / mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes just to save her shoes from gravel. CHORUS: Still I sing bonnie boys bonnie mad boys Bedlem boys are bonnie, and they all go bare and they live by the air and they want no drink nor money. V2. I went down to Satan's kitchen for to get me food one morning / and there I saw souls piping hot all on the spit a'turning. V3. My staff has murdered giants and my bag a long knife carries / for to cut mince pies from children's thighs with which to feed the fairies. V4. The spirit's white as lightening would on my travels guide me / the earth would shake and the stars would quake whenever they espied me. V5.No gypsy slot or dopsie can win this mad top from me / I'll weep all night and with stars fight and the fray will well become me. V6. And when that I have murdered the Man in the Moon to a powder / his bones I'll shake and his staff I'll quake and there will howl no demon louder. Hope you like it!
The second traditional ballad "The banks of the Bann" is Irish and is included here as a complete contrast to the first song. Tim is still available for folk club bookings and can be contacted through his website www.hatmusic.co.uk

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• Tim Kent
• Sussex folk musician
• Bedlam Boys
• Banks of the Bann
• Willows Folk Club Arundel.

[anime119]

^_^ I am in the medieval club in my school. We do live action roleplaying and go to medieval fairs and stuff. One of the really major plots in our roleplaying game is based around the Bedlam Boys song. Thanks for singing it.

[pipesbillyok]

Great song!!!