Roberts and Barrand was a musical group formed in 1969 by
John Roberts and
Tony Barrand
Anthony Grant Barrand (April 3, 1945 – January 29, 2022) was a British-born American folk singer and academic. He was a Professor of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, where his courses included "Stalking the Wild ...
while they were graduate students in psychology at
Cornell University. Much of their repertoire is traditional English music, although they have also recorded albums of traditional
sea shanties.
The duo also performed as members of the four-man act
Nowell Sing We Clear
Nowell Sing We Clear is a previously four-member musical group that performs an annual yuletide concert series. They have also released a series of related albums.
The concerts consist of yuletide stories and music, and often include a Mummers Pl ...
.
Barrand died on 29 January 2022, at the age of 76.
Discography
Spencer the Rover is Alive and Well... (1971, 2001)
Traditional English Ballads and Songs
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Spencer the Rover"
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Creeping Jane"
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I Wish They'd do it Now"
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Rambleaway"
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What a Mouth!"
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The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter"
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Silicosis
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The Coachman"
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The Lincolnshire Poacher"
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Warlike Seamen"
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Down the Plughole"
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Shine Your Buttons with Brasso"
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Martin Said to His Man"
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Fanny Blair"
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So Green as the Leaves"
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Babylon is Fallen
''Bābili(m)''
* sux, 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠
* arc, 𐡁𐡁𐡋 ''Bāḇel''
* syc, ܒܒܠ ''Bāḇel''
* grc-gre, Βαβυλών ''Babylṓn''
* he, בָּבֶל ''Bāvel''
* peo, 𐎲𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎽𐎢 ''Bābiru''
* elx, 𒀸𒁀𒉿𒇷 ''Babi ...
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Thyme"
Across the Western Ocean (1973, 2000)
Songs of the North Atlantic Sailing Packets
# Introduction
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New York Girls New York Girls", also known as "Can't You Dance the Polka," is a traditional sea shanty. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 486.
Lyrics
The lyrics have many variations, but almost all versions contain this chorus, sung after each verse:
...
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# Captain Samuels on his sailors
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Blow the Man Down
"Blow the Man Down" is an English sea shanty, listed as 2624 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The lyric "Blow the man down" can be interpreted in a number of ways. Some see it as a reference to a sailor being struck with a fist. Given the shanty's t ...
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# Impressions of a first voyage
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The Crayfish
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The Black Cook
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The Limejuice Ship
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# The wreck of the Staffordshire
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The Flying Dutchman"
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Get Up Jack, John Sit Down
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* "Get" (song), by the Groggers
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* Get AS, a ...
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The Flying Cloud
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# Immigration conditions
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Heave Away My Johnnies"
# Perils of transatlantic dalliance
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Maggie May"
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Peter Street
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At 211 cm (6' 11") he is the equal tallest player in the history of the VFL/AFL (along with Aaron Sand ...
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The Seamen's Hymn"
Mellow With Ale From the Horn (1975)
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Save Your Money While You're Young"
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Staines Morris"
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Barbara Allen"
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Salt River, Colored Aristocracy"
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Oats and Beans and Barley Grows"
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Kate and Her Horns"
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Come Day, go Day (Glyn Hughes)''
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The Albatross"
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The Wings of a Goney"
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The Handsome Cabin Boy"
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File Foot Flirt"
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Our Bill"
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Albert and the Lion
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Salvation Band"
Dark Ships in the Forest (1977, 1997)
Ballads of the Supernatural, with Fred Breunig & Steve Woodruff
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Oak, Ash, and Thorn"
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The Broomfield Wager"
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The Wife of Usher's Well"
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Tom of Bedlam
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The Dreadful Ghost"
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The Foggy Dew"
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The Derby Ram"
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The Maid on the Shore"
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Reynardine"
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The False Lady"
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Polly Vaughn"
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The Two Magicians
"The Twa Magicians", "The Two Magicians", "The Lady and the Blacksmith", or "The Coal Black Smith" (Roud 1350, Child 44) is a British folk song. It first appears in print in 1828 in two sources, Peter Buchan's ''Ancient Ballads and Songs of the N ...
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Live at Holsteins! (1983)
Eat Bertha's Mussels
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John Barleycorn"
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The Man that Waters the Workers' Beer"
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Garners Gay"
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Three Drunken Maidens"
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Congleton Bear"
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The Rolling Mills of New Jersey"
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Eat Bertha's Mussels"
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Boozing
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The Ballad of the Cowpuncher"
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Newman's Ale"
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The Man at the Nore"
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The Barley Mow
''The Barley Mow'' (Roud 944) is a cumulative song celebrated in the traditions of folk music of England, Ireland, and Scotland. William Chappell transcribed the lyrics in his two-volume work ''The Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden ...
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An Evening at the English Music Hall (1984)
with Maggi Pierce, David Jones, Andy Barrand, Louis Killen, and Murray Callahan
Recorded Live at the Troy Music Hall, Troy, New York, 1974
# "A Little Bit of Cucumber" (John Roberts)
# "Don't Have Any More Mrs. Moore!" (Maggi Pierce)
# "My Old Dutch" (David Jones)
# "Lily of Laguna" (Andy Barrand)
# "Sweeney Todd the Barber" (Tony Barrand)
# "Last Neet" (Lou Killen)
# "Sam Hall" (David Jones)
# "When I Take My Morning Promenade" (Murray Callahan)
# "I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy" (Tony Barrand)
# "The Old Armchair" (David Jones)
A Present from the Gentlemen (1992)
A Pandora's Box of English Folk Songs
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Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy"
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Jackie Munro"
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Nine Times a Night"
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A Smuggler's Song"
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The Three Butchers"
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The Painful Plough"
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Dog and Gun"
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The Draggletail Gypsy/The Princess Royal"
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The Outlandish Knight"
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Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford"
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Our Hamlet"
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Sam Hall"
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The Fellow that Played the Trombone"
# Great War Trilogy:
#* "The Valley of the Shadow"
#* "The Old Barbed Wire"
#* Long, Long Trail"
Naulakha Redux (1997)
Songs of Rudyard Kipling
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Ford o' Kabul River
Ford commonly refers to:
* Ford Motor Company, an automobile manufacturer founded by Henry Ford
* Ford (crossing), a shallow crossing on a river
Ford may also refer to:
Ford Motor Company
* Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
* Ford F ...
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Tommy
Tommy may refer to:
People
* Tommy (given name)
* Tommy Atkins, or just Tommy, a slang term for a common soldier in the British Army
Arts and entertainment Film and television
* ''Tommy'' (1931 film), a Soviet drama film
* ''Tommy'' (1975 fil ...
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Sir Richard's Song"
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The Land"
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Philadelphia"
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Cells
Cell most often refers to:
* Cell (biology), the functional basic unit of life
Cell may also refer to:
Locations
* Monastic cell, a small room, hut, or cave in which a religious recluse lives, alternatively the small precursor of a monastery w ...
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Mandalay
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Mandalay was fo ...
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An Astrologer's Song"
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The Ballad of Minepit Shaw"
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Song of the Men's Side"
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The Liner She's a Lady"
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Frankie's Trade"
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We Have Fed Our Sea"
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A Carol"
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Danny Deever"
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Follow Me 'Ome
Follow may refer to:
* ''Follow'' (album), the third album by Pakho Chau
*Follow (dancer), one member of a partner dance
*"Follow", a song by Jerry Merrick, popularized by Richie Havens on his 1966 album ''Mixed Bag''
*"Follow", a song by Drowning ...
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Heartoutbursts (1998)
English Folksongs collected by Percy Grainger
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Brigg Fair"
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Seventeen Come Sunday"
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Creeping Jane"
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Turpin Hero"
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The White Hare"
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Rufford Park Poachers"
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Lord Bateman
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The Gypsy's Wedding Day"
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A Fair Maid Walking"
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The Lost Lady Found"
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Sprig of Thyme"
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Riding Down to Portsmouth"
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Horkstow Grange"
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The "Rainbow""
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William Taylor"
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Lord Melbourne"
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Lisbon
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Died for Love"
Twiddlum Twaddlum (2003)
Live in Concert
* "Anchor Song"
* "The Golden Vanity"
* "High Barbary"
* "Jonah and the Grampus"
* "A Pilgrim¹s Way"
* "Old Bangum"
* "Who Killed Cock Robin?"
* "Two Foxes"
* "All Through The Ale"
* "The Rawtenstall Annual Fair"
* "Nell"
* "The Nutting Girl"
* "Claudy Banks"
* "The Week Before Easter"
* "The Cockerham Devil"
* "Row on"
As featured performers in an anthology
* ''Pleasant and Delightful, Vol 2'' – Living Folk (1972)
* ''Songs and Sounds of the Sea'' –
National Geographic Society (1973)
* ''Clearwater'' – Hudson River Sloop Restoration (1974)
* ''The Audience Pleased'' –
Oberlin College
Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...
(1976)
* ''Clearwater II'' – Hudson River Sloop Restoration (1977)
* ''Champlain Valley Festival Highlights'' – Champlain Valley Festival (1990)
* ''Homeward Bound'' – Revels (2002)
References
External links
Golden Hind Music(official site)
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1969 establishments in New York (state)
2022 disestablishments in New York (state)
American folk musical groups
Cornell University alumni
Maritime music
Musical groups established in 1969
Musical groups disestablished in 2022