Morris Medley

Albion Country Band

Morris Medley:
Mouresque/London Pride/So Selfish Runs the Hare/
Maid of the Mill/Sheriff's Ride

This medley of five Morris tunes was recorded in 1973 for the album
Martin Carthy sings the tune in the middle, So Selfish Runs the Hare.


Oh, so selfish runs the hare
And so cunning runs the fox.
Who would think this little calf
Would grow to a noble ox?
To live among the briars
And to run among the thorns,
And die the death that his father did
With a large pair of horns.

Chorus:

Horns, large horns,
Horns, large horns,
And die the death that his father did
With a large pair of horns

[Trad. arr. Simon Nicol / Martin Carthy / Ashley Hutchings]

Albion Sunrise

Albion Country Band

When the sun comes up in the morning and you hear the dancing boys
Mother leave your pots and pans, sister leave your toys
If you have to break a camel’s back or pull the crowds apart
You’ll find a way to get there when that old time music starts

Just down the street
There’s a rattling sound
There’s a country band
Playing hand me down
And it’s a jamboree

It was in my father’s father’s time they new a rolling air
And the Albion boys will show you how, they sang it everywhere

And if you come along with us you’re numbered as a friend
And the faded flower of England will rise and bloom again

Just down the street
There’s a rattling sound
There’s a country band
Playing hand me down
And it’s a jamboree

The dancers standing three and three are a most illustrious sight
If someone saw a better one then you surely know he lied

You can hear the bells a-ringing as the singer calls them on
They can dance away the night and day and never step it wrong

[Richard Thompson]

© Richard Thompson 1973