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Registrace 22. 01. 2015
Paradise/Spanish Pipedream.
Two more of our favourite John Prine songs: Paradise (surely one of the earliest 'green' country-folk songs), and Spanish Pipedream, about quitting the rat race and moving back to the land.
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The Truth from the Lies
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A song by Irish songwriter Tom Reid we learned from John Breeze. Over the lockdown period, truth became even harder to tell from lies, so this song ibecame increasingly relevant.
Cricket, Lovely Cricket! (Victory Calypso). RIP Sonny Ramadhin.
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Eddie's version of Lord Beginner's calypso celebrating the victory of the West Indies test team over England at Lord's in 1950. "With those little pals of mine ... ". Sonny Ramadhin died last year aged 92.
Mike Walford tribute
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Our tribute to our great friend Mike Walford who passed on a couple of years ago. Two songs: one of Mike's (Blues keep followin' me) and one by the great Tom Paxton to our own particular 'Ramblin' Boy'.
Sam Stone
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Perhaps John Prine's best known early song. Rather a bleak narrative, but full of John's compaasion for fellow veterans who became victoms of war.
(If you miss me at the) Back of the Bus
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Our rendering of Charles Neblett's tribute to Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat in the 'white' section of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama on 1 December 1955, thus sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott coordinated by Dr Martin Luther King, jr.
That was the President
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Eddie's version of Phil Ochs's tribute to President John F. Kennedy, assassinated 22 November 1963 in Dallas, Texas. From the forthcoming album, I Remember Phil Ochs
Peterloo 2019
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Farrell Famly celebrate 150 years of Cornish Trade Unionism at South Crofty in August 2019 with a topical song about Peterloo.
The Lowlands of Holland
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Eddie attempts a traditional song: one of his favourites, as for him it epitomises the English folk tradition.
Angela Davis
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Video by Eddie of an old Johnstons recording of a song by Chris McCloud. Interesting how with Black Lives Matter, Angela Davis has come back into public prominence. Recording dates from 1971,and features a very young Paul Brady.
Lord Franklin
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Home made video by Eddie of first song he sang in a folk club (Bodmin) after a gap of 42 years! Commemorates the search by Jane, Lady Franklin, for her husband's lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage, something people do nowadays in small yachts! No-one found it until 1994. If only they'd asked the local Inuit, ... ... ...
The Cutty Wren
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Old song commemorating the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 Eddie learned from the singing of the Ian Campbell Folk Group.
The D Day Dodgers (Eddie Farrell's Alternative VE Day Celebration)
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Video of our recording of a WW2 song Eddie's Dad taught him. If, like Eddie, you are sickened by the "Vera Lynn, Tory VE Day" we are all having shoved down out throats as part of Boris's "Good Old Boris as Churchill" act, take note that Eddie's Dad (RN 1943-1946) told him that before he left for the Far East (1944) he never lacked a lift wherever he went, but that when got back (1946), though s...
The Lowlands of Holland
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Farrel Family's tribute to the great Sandy Denny, died 23 April 1978
I ain't marchin anymore
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Eddie's tribute to the great Phil Ochs, died 9 April 1976.
The Diggers Song (You Noble Diggers All)
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The Diggers Song (You Noble Diggers All)
So true. My grandfather was there from the very start of the war, rescued from Dunkirk, through North Africa, Italy and the slog that it was and then Germany. A brave and modest man left with obvious PTSD that always remembered the blokes that didn't make it and who detested any glorification of war. A similar outlook to Harry Patch.
Spike Milligan should be their patron saint. Every Goon Show contained at least one explosion. Spike's PTSD also lasted his whole life.
This song makes me think of a Scottush song, Ye Jacobites by name (only for the tune...)
That's because we used the same tune! 😃Leon Rosselson has a slightly different tune which I think is closer to the original.
Those last few drawings are just such a gutpunch. If the Diggers / True Levellers ever came back, they would be suppressed just the same as they were back then.
We're here! We're called anarchists ;)
And... Yeah we're suppressed as hell 🙃
Thank you for the moving Tribute to John Fitzgerald Kennedy. GOD only knows how our Country would have evolved...
I just discovered this gentleman's music on Cornwell radio! I am sad to hear of Mike's passing, and I have only the best wishes for his family.
Hi. Jeff. Thanks for positive comment. Did you hear us recently?
@farrellfamily4953 Yes. I was listening on a streaming APP, listening to Cornwall Radio,when Mike's song began playing. I knew he was a Kindred Soul. I am from USA,state of Missouri.
How wonderful to hear this again after all these years! I remember singing this on the Aldermaston Marches, over 60 years ago!
Yes. Frankie's mum was on the very first two of those. So it's by way of a tribute to her.
Well sung. Plenty more where that came from.
Many thanks, Tom. Hope we didn't butcher your song too much. Like I said, Breezy does a better version.
@@farrellfamily4953 I disagree. I think you did a great job on it. You got it. !!!
@@TomCReid well thanks again. It's a great song, full of powerful images.
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Both wonderful John Prine songs. You guys do a great version of both.
Well thanks again. Maggie and I like to sing Spanish Pipedream as some years ago we moved to the country and planted a garden. As for Paradise, it really is one of the earliest 'green' songs. Pity those parts of the Appalachians devastated by mining are now Trump territory. But the Scotch-Irish are still producing great music! 😃
@@farrellfamily4953 Very cool, you lived Spanish Pipedream. 😊
@@RemingtonRidersMusic do you know why it's called that? I've never got past thinking it must be drug related. And I suppose the soldier was on his way to Montreal to desert the US army! 😃
@@farrellfamily4953 Those are good questions. I sort of assumed that about the soldier on his way to Montreal. But the title is a mystery. I always think of him high in Spain dreaming the song.
Very good tribute to Mike. I really enjoyed it and meant to go and learn a Mike song myself.
Nice cover.
Thanks. John was someone whose music I meant to catch up on for many years. As usual, I left it a bit late 😕
Little history if interested behind this song the diggers are or “True levellers” is a political movement based Agrarian socialism. This movement was around the time of the English civil war.
Yep. Check out our Liner Notes! Gerard Winstanley had a lot of ideas we could use today.
@@farrellfamily4953 And you can watch the film Winstanley
This aged well
Thanks. I'm thinking of an update on Energy Tax.
Thank you for this wonderful rendition of the song! I had the pleasure and privilege of meeting with and talking with D-Day Dodgers a few years ago, recorded on video. czcams.com/video/ipVPn9J_ZjM/video.html
Great photo montage. I was never a defender of imperialism, but we need to pay attention. The imperialists change. Today, the threat to peace largely comes from Russia.
The threat to peace comes from capitalism.
@ Lee Diamond utter nonsense!!
Thanks Alan. It was just a run through, really. No chance of really competing with the great Sandy Denny.
Highly uplifting...
Thanks Tom. Ochs is my hero. Ed.
Who is singing? Farrell is a common Irish name so this kind of has no meaning, as far as who is posting here.
@@leemdynamo rather an offensive comment.
This is wonderful--a pity it's clipped at the end. So important to keep songs such as this alive.
Hi, Chris. Thanks for the comment. This video dates from our early days, and I really should get it fixed!!! However, you can hear the whole thing on our own website at www.farrellfamilyband.co.uk/?page_id=211, where you can also buy our CD of course!! or you can see a video made by our friend Nick Heard of Exeter at www.farrellfamilyband.co.uk/?page_id=211 Anyway thnaks for your interest. Eddie Farrell
That could so be Steeleye Span. Well done.
Farreell Family's (well, two of 'em's) tribute to the great Dave Swarbrick. Thanks for all the music, great man!