English Folk Music

Luigi · Postby **Luigi** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 9:20 pm

So through the grapevine of the internet coupled with a wandering mind, I stumbled upon this English folk song which I had heard a thousand times yet never known the name. It is named Greensleeves:

Its exceptionally beautiful, and got me searching for more English folk music. I thought the older the better so I searched for the earliest one I could find. Turns out they didnt write songs down much in the middle ages, but here is one what was composed in the late 1400s and written down in 1521. Its called the "The Bores Heed in Hande Bring I"(The boar's head in hand Bring I) and is about the ancient tradition of eating a boar or pig at Christmas dinner(which most Anglospherers still do today). It has Latin parts in it because it was popular at universities where students liked to throw some Latin into their songs:

I tried to find a version sung in the original Middle English but there is none on youtube.

Does anyone else know any good English Folk Music?

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