Name: Hal-an-Tow
Duration: P00H02M18S
Description: A Cornish May song.

Hal-an-Tow

from Amplificata by Broadside Electric

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A Cornish May song.

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Hal-an-tow, jolly rumble-o
We were up long before the day, O
To welcome in the summer sun, to welcome in the May, O
For summer is a coming in and winter's gone away, O

Robin Hood and Little John, they both have gone to fair, O
And we shall to the merry green wood to hunt the buck and hare, O

Hal-an-tow …

And where are all the Spaniards who made so great a boast, O?
They shall eat the feathered goose and we shall eat the roast, O

Do not scorn to wear the horn that was the crest when you were born,
Your father's father wore it and your father wore it too.

God bless Aunt Mary Moses and all her power and might, O
And send us peace in England, send peace by day and night, O

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from Amplificata, released January 1, 1994
(trad. arr. R. Hall, verse 3 arr. T. Rhoads)

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Broadside Electric Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Broadside Electric is a five-piece electric folk band from Philadelphia, PA (US). They have earned a reputation for thoroughly original arrangements and painstaking research into traditional English, Celtic and Eastern European music. Broadside Electric has been at turns called “Pennsylvania’s answer to Steeleye Span” and “folk music’s answer to death metal.” ... more

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