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Wednesday, 7 August 2013

Songs From The Pie Tree

Searching through the boxes of Fleams stuff I came across this - Songs From The Pie Tree - Fleams music recorded by Kate W Aimson at The Pie Tree pub in Fleams.  It is in the form of sheet music, and is favourite songs and the groups that performed them.  Here is the index of songs from the front cover:

Winking Man Jig as performed by Roaring Jelly
Churn-House Cut as performed by Idle Women
In The Doxey's Arms as performed by Gelding the Devil
Winter's Gibbet as performed by Outlandish Skeleton
Kilter-Kelter as performed by Theories about Pygmy Fairies
Swan on the Old Barn Wall as performed by Waterfall of Bones
The Testimony of Murdo MacLean as performed by Haunted Ape-House
Toady Old Man Rag as performed by The Toad Shakers

the last being a rag-time melody in the style of Mr Jelly-Roll Morton of Chicago.

Music was a very popular entertainment in Fleams, and groups could make a living, or at least part of their living from travelling and performing.  Lally Buck used to illustrate the sheet music they sold with her lino-print pictures.  I believe she did the illustration on the sheet music "Songs From The Pie Tree", which Kate W Aimson published in 1913.

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