This is a traditional song that I first saw in about 1974. It was in the Lit and Phil Library in Newcastle and I visited it once, made a handwritten copy of this song and the tune, learnt how to play it. I couldn't afford to become a member at that time and it wasn't until it was my 50th birthday that my children bought me a membership to the library as a present that I got the rest of the words.
I had always loved the tune and the few verses that I had written down.
I began to play it again in the last 5 or 6 years. As with all things folk I see this as the dark tale in amongst all of the other stories.
This was actually the 7th take of recording the song, not because I couldn't perform it first time, but the cameras that I was using all seemed to cut out or stop recording at various points in the playing, the worst of which was when the last 12 seconds of the song didn't register. Even when I played it at the Bridge folk club in Newcastle the camera gave up. That's why there are two, (should have been 3), cameras used on this take.
You will see me talking at the end about "if this doesn't work" and looking at my fingertips which were well and truly blistered....
Негізгі бет Ойын-сауық TONY WILSON "Poor Mary, Drowned in the Silvery Tide" 2024
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