This is an old Scottish song from the Greig Duncan Folk Song Collection.

Billy Taylor

We learnt this song from the singing of friends ( Lynne Muir, John Munro and Denis Tracey) in Australia years ago and have recently re-discovered it.  We sing it with our friend Liz Conway in our trio Midsummer Blue. Will add duclimer later as this is just a rough recording. 
Wandering the quiet lanes around the village it is hard to imagine that in the 18th-century it was the headquarters for a notorious band of thieves. Known as the Culworth Gang, this disreputable bunch terrorised locals and other villages until they were later rounded up by the law. They remain immortalised in a song by local folk musician, Stuart Marson: 'Close to the Wind'.
http://www.culworthvillage.co.uk/of-interest/the-culworth-gang/

Too Close To The Wind

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