... Oh yes, two videos in a row! Well, I thought that a full song would be more interesting than a sequence of nonsense French words.
Please note: I apologise for the first 20 seconds which are, well, blank - I was looking for the right pitch... !
Please note: I apologise for the first 20 seconds which are, well, blank - I was looking for the right pitch... !
The photo is a very recent one - thanks to my friend Paola who took it less than one week ago while we were walking around Hampstead Heath, London. The song is a traditional British tune - I sing a version of it that I learnt from an early recording by Anne Briggs, probably one of my favourite folk singers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Briggs). I guess I particularly like this song (and this version) because of the melody, clearly, but also because of its "conciseness", if you will: a few metaphors explain in a pictorial way a couple of rather basic concepts related to human behaviour (whether one agrees or not is an entirely different matter). Now that I think of it, this might almost be taken as a definition of folk music... ? Anyway, I recorded this version of "Let No Man Steal Your Thyme" in 2009.
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