Jim Jones At Botany Bay
"Jim Jones at Botany Bay" ( Roud 5478) is a traditional Australian folk ballad dating from the early 19th-century. The narrator, Jim Jones, is found guilty of poaching and sentenced to transportation to the penal colony of New South Wales. En route, his ship is attacked by pirates, but the crew holds them off. When the narrator remarks that he would rather have joined the pirates or indeed drowned at sea than gone to Botany Bay, Jones is reminded by his captors that any mischief will be met with the whip. In the final verse, Jones describes the daily drudgery and degradation of life as a convict in Australia, and dreams of joining the bushrangers (escaped convicts turned outlaws) and taking revenge on his floggers. Australian folklorists such as Bill Scott date the song's composition to the years immediately preceding 1830 when bushranger Jack Donahue, who is named in the song, was fatally shot by troopers. The oldest surviving written version of the ballad is found in ''Old P ...
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Roud Folk Song Index
The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud. Roud's Index is a combination of the Broadside Index (printed sources before 1900) and a "field-recording index" compiled by Roud. It subsumes all the previous printed sources known to Francis James Child (the Child Ballads) and includes recordings from 1900 to 1975. Until early 2006, the index was available by a CD subscription; now it can be found online on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website, maintained by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS). A partial list is also available at List of folk songs by Roud number. Purpose of index The primary function of the Roud Folk Song Index is as a research aid correlating versions of traditional English-language folk song lyrics independently documented over past centuries by many different collectors across (especially) ...
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Marian Henderson
Marian Henderson (born Marian Grossman; 16 April 1937 – 21 May 2015) was an Australian folk and jazz singer. She worked extensively in Australian folk and jazz clubs during the 1960s and 1970s and appeared on television and a number of Australian folk music recordings, though recorded only one album under her own name. Early life and education Henderson was born Marian Grossman in Melbourne, Australia, on 16 April 1937, to an air force family which moved frequently with her father's job, resulting in her attending 13 schools. Her first musical instrument was piano, which she played by ear in her early teens. From age 18 she commenced singing jazz (frequently with rock-and-roll bands) and then gravitated towards folk music, learning the guitar with which to accompany her own singing in the style of other popular performers of the early 1960s. Career She formed a rock and roll band, the Thunderbirds, with fellow musician/songwriter Don Henderson (later her husband), befor ...
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Jennifer Jason Leigh
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Chloë And Jason Roweth
Chloë Roweth (born 1972) and Jason Roweth (born 1969) are Australian singers and instrumentalists who perform folk music, original and contemporary music."http://www.rowethmusic.com.au/Site/Home.html Chloë and Jason Roweth Web Site. Retrieved 3 March 2014. Their CD ''A Voice that was Still'' was awarded the National Folk Recording Award for 2010 by the National Film and Sound Archive at the Australian National Folk Festival. Chloë Roweth was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and went to Australia with her family in 1984. She met Jason Roweth at university in 1991 and they later married. Jason Roweth was born in Newcastle, New South Wales and was interested in music, musical instruments and composing songs from an early age. He gained first place in the music course for the New South Wales Higher School Certificate at Red Bend Catholic College, Forbes, New South Wales. He moved to Sydney in 1986, seeking to become a professional musician. The couple released their first music ...
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Causley
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Eight-hour Day
The eight-hour day movement (also known as the 40-hour week movement or the short-time movement) was a social movement to regulate the length of a working day, preventing excesses and abuses of working time. The modern movement originated in the Industrial Revolution in Britain, where industrial production in large factories transformed working life. At that time, the working day could range from 10 to 16 hours, the work week was typically six days, and child labour was common. Since the 19th century, the eight-hour workday has been gradually adopted in various countries and industries, with widespread adoption occurring in the first half of the 20th century. History Sixteenth century In 1594, Philip II of Spain established an eight-hour work day for the construction workers in the American Viceroyalties by a royal edict known as '' Ordenanzas de Felipe II'', or Ordinances of Philip II. This established: An exception was applied to mine workers, whose work day was limi ...
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The Currency
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ...
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Undiscovered Australia
Undiscovered may refer to: * ''Undiscovered'' (film), a 2005 film starring Steven Strait, Ashlee Simpson and Carrie Fisher. * ''Undiscovered'' (Brooke Hogan album), 2006 * ''Undiscovered'' (James Morrison album), 2006 ** "Undiscovered" (song), the title song *"Undiscovered", a song by Ashlee Simpson from ''Autobiography'', 2004 *"The Undiscovered", a 1997 short story by William Sanders *'' Undiscovered (podcast)'' a show produced by Science Friday and WNYC Studios See also * Discovery (other) Discovery may refer to: * Discovery (observation), observing or finding something unknown * Discovery (fiction), a character's learning something unknown * Discovery (law), a process in courts of law relating to evidence Discovery, The Discovery ...

Martyn Wyndham-Reed
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Mick Thomas And The Sure Thing
Mick is a masculine given name or nickname, usually a hypocorism of Michael. Because of its popularity in Ireland, it is often used in the English-speaking world as an ethnic slur for Irish people. In Australia, the meaning also broadened to include all Catholics. A colloquial but possibly false etymology also attributes the origin of the slur to the prevalence of Irish surnames containing the patronymic prefix " Mc-" (or '' Mhic''); whether this patronym significantly contributed to the development of the slur is debated, but the prevalence of the first name or nickname "Mick" among Irish people is considered by etymologists to be its primary origin. People * Mick Abrahams (born 1943), English guitarist and band leader, original guitarist for Jethro Tull * Mick Aston (1946-2013), English archaeologist * Mick Batyske, aka Mick (DJ), American DJ * Mick Brown, half of the British vocal duo Pat and Mick * Mick Clarke (born 1989), Irish footballer * Mick Coady (born 1958), English f ...
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Signs Of Life (Martin Carthy Album)
Signs of Life may refer to: Film * ''Signs of Life'' (1968 film), by Werner Herzog * ''Signs of Life'' (1989 film), a U.S. film Literature * ''Signs of Life'' (Harrison novel) by M. John Harrison * Signs of Life (Elliott novel), a 1981 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott * ''Signs of Life'', a book of poetry by John Gierach * ''Signs of Life'', a 1996 book by Cherry Wilder Music * ''Signs of Life'' (Billy Squier album), 1984 * "Signs of Life" (instrumental), by Pink Floyd * ''Signs of Life'' (Penguin Cafe Orchestra album), 1987 * ''Signs of Life'' (Poets of the Fall album) * ''Signs of Life'' (Steven Curtis Chapman album), 1996 * ''Signs of Life'' (Peter Bernstein album), 1995 * Signs of Life (Peter Apfelbaum album), 1991 * ''Signs of Life'' (Tara MacLean EP), 2007 * ''Signs of Life'' by Arcade Fire, 2017 * ''Signs of Life'', a 1998 album by Martin Carthy * ''Signs of Life'', an EP by Every Move a Picture * ''Signs of Life'', a 2004 album by Nemo * ''Signs of Life'', a ...
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Martin Carthy
Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in English folk music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, as well as later artists such as Richard Thompson, since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk revival in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s. Early life Carthy was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, and grew up in Hampstead, North West London. His mother was an active socialist and his father, from a family of River Thames lightermen, went to grammar school and became a trade unionist and a councillor for Stepney at the age of 21. Martin's father had played fiddle and guitar as a young man but Martin was unaware of this connection to his folk music heritage until much later in life. His vocal and musical training began when he became a chorister at the Queen's Chapel of The Savoy. He picked up his father's old guitar for th ...
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