Name: Prickle Holly Bush by Sean T. Smith
Duration: 4 min 6 s
Description: Very old ballad from the British Isles folk tradition with myriad offshoots, and interpreted by everyone from Leadbelly to Led Zeppelin. This version mainly via The Watersons. Recorded 4/20/2014.

this is excellent Sean - really digging it - lovely guitar work.

My favorite (though all are excellent) --Francesca

A total copycat cover of Davy Graham & Shirley Collins' arrangement of the traditional song 'Hares on the Mountain', from their album 'Folk Roots, New Routes'.  I tried to transcribe Davy's part as precisely as I could, though I might have missed or forgotten a few variations.  

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_nBRX2ejYY
TAB/sheet music:  https://lindsayandjordanmusic.com/teaching

If you've never heard this song or the album, I implore you to go check out the original.  Seriously, do it right now:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/folk-roots-new-routes-mw0000668476 
http://mainlynorfolk.info/shirley.collins/records/folkrootsnewroutes.html

Hares On The Mountain (Trad. Arr. Shirley Collins & Davy Graham)

Very old ballad from the British Isles folk tradition with myriad offshoots, and interpreted by everyone from Leadbelly to Led Zeppelin. This version mainly via The Watersons. Recorded 4/20/2014.

Prickle Holly Bush

-I play mainly traditional tunes and songs from Ireland, Scotland and England
-Instruments: guitar, bouzouki, bodhran and mandolin
-Live in the Boston area
-Member of traditional Irish music trio with Emily Peterson and Steve Levy [http://seansmithmusic.webs.com/trio.html]
-Have performed solo or in various collaborations at Club Passim, BCMFest (Boston's Celtic Music Fest), NEFFA, Boston College Arts Festival, Midwinter Coffeehouse, notloB Kitchen Concerts, Concerts at the Captain's House series, Irish Cultural Centre of New England, Nameless Coffeehouse, Elysium Arts Folk Club, Oasis Coffeehouse and The Mill, among others.

Prickle Holly Bush

Sean T. Smith

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