David Harley Words & Music & Pictures &…

…never does me any harm. Those of you with musical ears might suffer a bit though.

Anyway, ‘The Folk Club‘ is playing my ‘Song of Chivalry’ in the ‘Here we are’ section of their upcoming show, along with tracks from Ezra Biggs and Ann Radcliffe.

Here’s where you’re in danger of hearing it:

• Weds 31st July 7pm Burwell Radio  [UK Only] Rpt. Sunday 1pm
• Thurs 1st Aug [10pm ET / 7pm PT ] [Fri 3am UK – Rpt Fri 11am] Folk Music Notebook
• Sat 3rd Aug 7pm West Norfolk Radio
• Subsequently on Mixcloud (show 204)

Also available as a single on Bandcamp. As always, you don’t have to buy it hear it! There’s another version here, where the guitar accompaniment is in Nashville tuning.

When M’Lord returned / To his sheets of silk
And his gentle lady / Of musk and milk
The minstrels sang / In the gallery
Their songs of slaughter / And chivalry

The rafters roared / With laughter and boasting
Goblets were raised and drained / In toasting
The heroes of Crécy / And Azincourt
Or the madness / Of some holy war

The hawk is at rest / On the gauntlet once more
Savage of eye / And bloody of claw
Famine and fever / Are all the yield
Of the burnt-out barns / And wasted fields

The sun grins coldly / Through the trees
The children shiver / The widows grieve
And beg their bread / At the monastery door
Tell me then / Who won the war?