Down in the Valley, canción tradicional del folk norteamericano. Balada de los Apalaches basada en las tonadas irlandesas, inglesas y escocesas, a ritmo de vals 3/4. Alan Lomas la calificó como canción carcelaria. 

Birminghan Jail, 1925.

Su letra:

Down in the Valley

Down in the valley, valley so low 
Late in the evening, hear the train blow
The train, love, hear the train blow 
Late in the evening, hear the train blow

Go build me a mansion, build it so high 
So I can see my true love go by 
See her go by, love, see her go by 
So I can see my true love go by

Go write me a letter, send it by mail
 Bake it and stamp it to the Birmingham jail  
Birmingham jail, love, to the Birmingham jail
 Bake it and stamp it to the Birmingham jail

Roses are red, love, violets are blue 
God and his angels know I love you
 Know I love you, know I love you 
God and his angels know I love you

Down In The Valley

This is our cover of the beautiful folk song The Snow it Melts the Soonest.  Recently recorded at Morvil Studio in Cornwall, and soon to be released on our debut album An Tir Orth Penn

The Snow It Melts The Soonest

A song collected from Marina Russell and based on an actual case, that of Private John Frederick White of the 7th Hussars, who was sentenced to 150 lashes of the cat o'nine tails for the offence of striking a colour sergeant with a metal bar while drunk. The sentence was the maximum allowed, and was viciously delivered. White was despatched to hospital, seemingly all right, but died there several days later. His became a cause celebre, and eventually led to the prime minister at the time, several years later that he favoured the abolition of corporal punishment . White's flogging occured in 1846, but the punishment was not withdrawn in the army until 1881, some long time afterwards. 
The song exaggerates the number of lashes but a certain degree of the story is true.

John White

A young woman has fallen in love with a man who has gone to sea.  She is longing for him and faults her parents for not supporting her love interest.

The lyrics are my own interpretation of the Irish version.

Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor

Collected in Bartley, Hampshire by Dr. George Gardiner from New Forest Gypsy - Albert Dow...Child Ballad 106.

Folk Songs from Hampshire

The Flower of Serving Men

AKA “License Hunting”
Words by Charles Thatcher (1831 - 1878 ),
Tune : Traditional
Cello by Natasha Jaffe https://natashajaffe.com/ 
One of the great topical songs written by Thatcher in the lead-up to the Eureka Rebellion of December 1854 on the Ballarat Goldfields.       
See also : https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=723978291744015 
For more Australian folk songs, please go to https://thequeenslandtiger.com/ 
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Where's your License ? (Charles Thatcher)

Cornwall based folk duo Fable bring you their own unique take on traditional & contemporary folk covers & original compositions.  
Kate and Alison create an original and ethereal blend of beautiful vocal harmonies, haunting flute & creative electro-acoustic harp.

ARMÓNICA "SOLO" REVIVAL. 
Versiones instrumentales y libres de temas del folksong tradicional. Un homenaje a la armónica, el instrumento nómada, portable y popular que fue compañía de cowboys y bluesmen en sus largos viajes hacia el oeste unos y hacia el norte otros...
Sonidos esenciales y evocadores.

This my journey into getting back into performing.  I am focusing on folk songs and especially old traditional ones.  
My tracks are available for purchase at https://oca2blue.bandcamp.com.  Come check out my album "For the Love Of Folk Music" there.

Since these tracks are works in progress in many cases, I often remove older versions and replace with newer versions.  If you heart a track, you may later find it is not showing your heart any longer when I have replaced it.   I try to keep all the songs on my playlist, Sue2BlueEyes Own, so you can always hear all the current versions on it.

I have 28 of these tracks available on ITunes, Spotify, Amazon, Google Play, Apple Music, and other venues.

I am an English singer, living since 1996 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. I was born in Hampshire, England on the edge of The New Forest, and then lived in North Oxfordshire for 25 years. There I was Squire and Foreman of The Adderbury Morris Men from the revival of the village dances in 1974, till I moved to the USA.
I have been singing all my life, but in recent years have been doing more since I have given up dancing.
I have recordings out on both Fallen Angle Music in Canada (see - http://www.ianrobb.com/)  and Forest Tracks Records in the UK - but that organisation has been wound up and no longer exists - I do still have some recordings but alas, very few.

New tracks tagged #traditional folk song