The Carpenter’s Son

Another version of my setting of Housman’s poem (A Shropshire Lad XLVII).

This version includes a guitar part. The words are published here, among many other places.  Here’s a version cleaned up by my friend Pierre Vandevenne: 

David Harley
Small Blue-Green World

She Moved Through the Souk

This gets its name because it kind of evolved from Davy Graham’s jazz-raga arrangement of ‘She Moved Through the Fair’ (memorably described by Martin Carthy as ‘a mess’). I’ve used the same arrangement (without the jazziness) as a starting point for accompanying singers, but this is a highly personalized, extemporized version that always seems to come out more North African than Indian.  Anyway, I don’t think we’re in Ireland any more with this version, Toto.

I don’t suppose Martin would like this version much, either.

David Harley
Small Blue-Green World

A Smuggler’s Song

A setting of the poem by Rudyard Kipling. The words and a few notes are available from this page. I believe Peter Bellamy used to sing a version set to ‘The White Cockade’, which I guess would readily lend itself to a more chorus-y version. In the 70s, I remember hearing a version to a different tune sung in Berkshire that used the second verse as a chorus.

Mastered version

Backup

David Harley