"It was late Christmas eve when he came down my flue ..."
 
Things took a sinister turn for the worst as Santa stole the heroes gal and then ...

YES, you guessed it ... the reindeers got involved in a terrible incident ... Happy Christmas!!                                        

Big thanks to all the local folk who made it a brilliant community project ... 

Written in Bagthorpe recorded in Underwood (Daniel Wright Studios) ... 

Featuring singers and musicians from Lawrence County ... You know who you are ....and for obvious reasons you all seem to wish to remain anonymous!!

Sketch - Zombie Santaby pappersflygplan

Video at; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N6dgJA3Em0

Santa Sleighed My Gal

A folk song which chronicles the demise of the coal industry in the UK 1984-1985
Cabinet papers released in 2014 - revealed that Thatcher had a 'hit list' of mines, as suggested by Arthur Scargill at the time ... Lest we forget!

There was a suggestion in January 2014, that a public holiday in the UK should be named after Margaret Thatcher ... This song is to remind us all why that should NEVER happen!

Written by Misk Hills Mountain Rambler III
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Thanks to all the photographers who made their photo's available 

Coal Was King

Bianca Jagger described this as a "great fracking song" 
... I'm happy to go with that description!

Fracking Song

Track 4 - 'Sad Eyed Latinos' - from the debut CD 'Escape This Wicked Life'

Meet a bunch of classically trained washboard & kazoo players, once described eloquently as, 'Hillbillies with mobile phones'. Hailing from the green hills and valleys of 'Lawrence county' ... some say, these folks have spent too long in the woods drinking moonshine!

 

Skiffle Show have been critically acclaimed for their live shows and in the music press for their debut EP 'Escape This Wicked Life'...

 

Described as; "...like a breath of fresh air in a crowded musical marketplace ... with their subtle mix of traditional British Folk Music and Bluegrass, and an emphasis on witty Americana-flavoured lyrics"     ..... NO DEPRESSION The roots music authority.

CONTACT: skiffleshow@gmail.com
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DH LAWRENCE & THE VAUDEVILLE SKIFFLE SHOW - Sad Eyed Latinos

The terrible atrocity that was the the massacre at Charlie Hebdo touches us all ... The only way I could help to heal my troubled mind, was to write a folk song ... I truly hope it does justice to those who were lost and ALL who are affected ... that's everyone!

The spirit of Charlie Hebdo and the joie de vivre, will live forever and hopefully ... So will FREE SPEECH

JE SUIS CHARLIE

In February 2016 The Guardian ran an article by Jonathan Luxmoore and Christine Ellis called ... "Not talkin' bout a revolution: where are all the protest songs?" 
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/22/protest-songs-folk-music-nancy-kerr-martin-carthy ...
The idea is of course nonsense and there are hundreds of active folk singers ... it's just that most of them live outside London in the deprived northern towns and cities ... So here is a protest song ... that protests against the nonsense suggestion that protest singers no longer exist ... Just try for a moment listening to Quiet Loner, Joe Solo, Alun Parry, The Hurriers and Ferocious Dog ... the list is endless and I can't name them all ... BUT just listen, protest songs are alive and well...!  

Protest At The Protest

This song tells the tale of modern day America ... Bye, bye folks!
lyrics
Bye Bye Americae – ©Taylorsongsmithery 2017

The folks on Coney Island walk with a shuffling gait
They don't realise they're already too late
They’re limping to the queue for corn dogs and cotton candy
This is the United States

CHORUS CGFC
Singing ... Bye, bye Americae,
Oh bye bye Americae
The President is lying and Disney Land is dying
Singing bye bye America

He wants the Mexicans to build his precious wall
He don't care for humanity at all
If they're not dreamers then they're gang members, drug runners
Demonise them, shoot them by their wall

C’mon Annie get y’ gun we’re going to have some fun
We’re goin’ to Church, to school, we’ll cruise the interstate
Lets buy another Smith & Wesson, lets teach them all a lesson
Lets pray, before we reach heavens gate

Chorus

I can't help but see the colourful irony
Of Redneck, white supremacy
Marching Torch bearers, dreaming of a master race
Led by a President with an orange face

The Presidents idea of fun is baiting Kim Jong Un
But folks, he's got his finger on the button
The apocalypse is coming the President is humming
.... Long live the United States

CHORUS CGFC
But it's ... Bye bye Americae,
Oh bye bye Americae
The President is lying and Disney Land is dying
Singing bye bye America
credits
released November 18, 2017
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Nottamun Town

Bye Bye Americae

Lance Armstrong said too little too late for a lot of people ... and the drug culture that he sat at the pinnacle of had a few victims ... Frank Vandenbroucke was one talented individual, who's career took a downward spiral and ended in a torrid, seedy tale worthy of a folk song ... RIP Frank Vandenbroucke and all the others who strove to win ... 
Livewrong

Ballad of Frank Vandenbroucke

The Lightning' is a powerful poem by DH Lawrence, so powerful that me and 'Wailin Nick Morland' felt that we couldn't let it pass us by!

We recorded this in one take ... like lightning!

It is not a song ... it is a poem and there's some music playing ....!

The Lightning (a poem by DH Lawrence)

I felt the lurch and halt of her heart
Next my breast, where my own heart was beating;
And I laughed to feel it plunge and bound,
And strange in my blood-swept ears was the sound
Of the words I kept repeating,
Repeating with tightened arms,
and the hot blood's blindfold art.

Her breath flew warm against my neck,
Warm as a flame in the cold night air;
And the sense of her clinging flesh was sweet
Where her arms and my neck's blood-surge could meet.
Holding her thus, did I care
That the black night hid her from me,
blotted out every speck?

I leaned me forward to find her lips,
And claim her utterly in a kiss,
When the lightning flew across her face,
And I saw her for the flaring space
of a second, afraid of the clips
Of my arms, inert with dread,
wilted in fear, fear of my kiss.

I heard the thunder, and felt the rain,
And my arms fell loose, and I was dumb.
Almost I hated her, she was so good.
Hated myself, and the place, and the blood,
Which burned with rage, as I bade her come home,
away home, & the lightning floated forth again.

the lightning floated forth again
the lightning floated forth again
the lightning floated forth again
the lightning floated forth again

The Lightning (poem by DH Lawrence)

The amazing Joe Harvey-Whyte laid down the Lap Steel on this laid back number ... brought to me by the song-fairy after a walk in the soaking Winter rain ....

Lyrics

'Winter Rain' - (c) MHMR

Like a soldier returning from a war far away
Like a bad moon rising at the end of a day

The rivers are swollen & it’s cloudy and grey
And old Leonard Cohen is still crooning away

Chorus
Oh winter rain oh winter rain
You’re falling again

Like a politician with his back to the wall
Telling all the soldiers that they need a war

Oh you just keep on pouring you’re soaking us all
Oh Winter rain, there’s blood in the oil

Oh winter rain, oh winter rain
…….You’re falling again

Oh winter rain, you’re falling again x 4

Released 25 January 2013

Credits
Misky on Banjo, Guitar, Harmonica, and voices
Joe Harvey-Whyte on Lap Steel Guitar 

Winter Rain

An absurdist 'Skiffle Poet' with a banjolele, washboard & Kazoo . . . Bagthorpe's only 'Folk Skiffle' artist! . . . Adversely influenced by Ivor Cutler, Tom Waits, Johnny Dowd and Michael Hurley . . . chain sawing his way through the madness of life . . . this is NOT X-factor . . . Don't ask for a cover unless you want one thats 100 years old! There are songs about tractors, hangings, the Devil, Werewolves & coal . . . take your pick and let the journey begin!

Misk Hills Rambler III

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