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Title
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To hear the nightingale sing
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Singer
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Kemble, Edward
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Notes
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Williams, Alfred: Ms: 'This also was very popular in and around South Marston. I have not met with it elsewhere. The tune is very sweet, which accounted for its success. It is, of course, rarely sung now, and there is less chance of it being revived in the future. There is nothing either good or bad but is so comparatively, in the folk song, as elsewhere, and if we lose in one direction we gain in another. Obtained of Edward Kemble, South Marston.'
Williams, Alfred: WGS: 'This also was very popular in and around South Marston. I have not met with it elsewhere. The tune is very sweet, which accounted for its success. It is, of course, rarely sung now, and there is less chance of it being revived in the future. We must march forward. There is nothing either good or bad but is so comparatively, in the folk song, as elsewhere, and if we lose in one direction we gain in another. Obtained of Edward Kemble, South Marston.'
Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010.
