Live Recordings (First Collection)

from William Barnes's Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (First Collection, 1844)

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Track 1 The Spring 1:51
Track 2 - The woodlands 2:10
Track 3 - Liady Day and' ridden house 3:39
Track 4 - Easter time 3:41
Track 5 - Dock leaves 1:41
Track 6 - The blackbird 2:11
Track 7 - Woodcom' feäst 2:50
Track 8 - The milkmâid o' the farm 1:50
Track 9 - The girt woak tree that's in the dell 3:00
Track 10 - Vellen the tree 4:18
Track 11 - Bringen oon gwâin o' Zundays 3:06
Track 12 - Evemen twilight 2:06
Track 13 - Evemen in the village 1:24
Track 14 - Mây 2:42
Track 15 - Bob the fiddler 1:14
Track 16 - Hope in Spring 2:23
Track 17 - The white road up athirt the hill 2:33
Track 18 - The woody holler 1:46
Track 19 - Jenny's ribbons 1:38
Track 20 - Eclogue: The 'lotments 3:21
Track 21 - EclogueA Bit o'sly coortèn 5:31
Track 22 - Evemen, an' mâidens out at door 2:21
Track 23 - The shepherd o' the farm 2:12
Track 24 - Vields in the light 1:31
Track 25 - Whitsuntide an' club wa'kèn 3:09
Track 26 - Woodley 1:47
Track 27 - The Brook-that runn'd by Gramfer's 3:01
Track 28 - Sleep did come wi' the dew 1:45
Track 29 - Sweet music in the wind 1:42
Track 30 - Uncle an' Ānt 2:32
Track 31 - Havèn oon's fortun a-tuold 2:33
Track 32 - Jeän's wedden dae in marnen 2:21
Track 33 - Rivers don't gi'e out 1:54
Track 34 - Miakèn up a miff 1:44
Track 35 - Hây-miakèn 2:03
Track 36 - Hây-carrèn 2:33
Track 37 - Eclogue: The best man in the vield 4:47
Track 38 -Wher did we kip our flagon 1:59
Track 39 - Wik's end in Zummer, in the wold vo'ke's time 3:39
Track 40 - The meäd a-mowd 1:32
Track 41 - The sky a-clearèn 2:11
Track 42 - The evemen star o' Zummer 1:49
Track 43 - The clote 2:02
Track 44 - I got two viel's 1:36
Track 45 - Polly be-èn upzides wi' Tom 2:02
Track 46 - Be'mi'ster 1:23
Track 47 - Thatchèn o' the rick 2:56
Track 48 - Bees a-zwarmen 1:41
Track 49 - Readèn ov a headstuone 1:52
Track 50 - Zummer evermen dānce 1:23
Track 51 - Eclogue: Viairies 4:23
Track 52 - Carn a turnèn yoller 1:17
Track 53 - A-halèn carn 1:52
Track 54 - Harvest huome: The vust piart: The supper 2:09
Track 55 - Harvest huome: Second piart: What tha done āter supper 1:42
Track 56 - A zong ov harvest huome 3:28
Track 57 - Poll's jack dā 1:56
Track 58 - The ivy 1:49
Track 59 - The welshnut tree 2:14
Track 60 - Jenny out vrom huome 1:21
Track 61 - Grenley water 1:37
Track 62 - The viary veet that I da meet 1:24
Track 63 - Marnen 2:11
Track 64 - Out a-nuttèn 2:15
Track 65 - Tiakèn in apples 1:17
Track 66 - Miaple leaves be yoller 1:22
Track 67 - The weather-beäten tree 1:21
Track 68 - Shodon fiair: The vust piart 2:11
Track 69 - Shodon fiair: The rest ō't 1:33
Track 70 - Martin's tide 2:13
Track 71 - Guy Faux's night 1:34
Track 72 - Night a-zettèn in 1:45
Track 73 - Eclogue: The common a-took in 4:07
Track 74 - Eclogue: Two farms in oone 3.58
Track 75 - The vrost 1:27
Track 76 - A bit o' fun 1:56
Track 77 - Fanny's bethdae 2:54
Track 78 - What Dick an' I done 2:56
Track 79 - Grammer's shoes 2:27
Track 80 - Zunsheen in the Winter 2:10
Track 81 - The weepèn liady 2:37
Track 82 - The happy daes when I wer young 2:16
Track 83 - In the stillness o' the night 1:11
Track 84 - The settle an' the girt wood vire 2:55
Track 85 - The carter 1:52
Track 86 - Christmas invitation 1:39
Track 87 - Keepèn up o' Chris'mas 1:25
Track 88 - Zittèn out the wold year 2:17
Track 89 - Woak wer good enough oonce 2:13
Track 90 - Miary-Ann's chile 2:30
Track 91 - Eclogue: Faether come huome 4:14
Track 92 - Eclogue: a ghost 4:28
Track 93 - A zong 1:14
Track 94 - The mâid var my bride 2:04
Track 95 - The huomestead 1:35
Track 96 - The farmer's woldest daeter 1:55
Track 97 - Uncle out o' debt an' out o' dannger 4:23
Track 98 - The church an happy zunday 2:17
Track 99 - The wold waggon 2:39
Track 100 - The common a-took in 1:59
Track 101 - A wold friend 1:27
Track 102 - The ruose that deck'd her breast 1:46
Track 103 - Nanny's cow 1:44
Track 104 - The shep'erd buoy 1;58
Track 105 - Hope a-left behine 2:19
Track 106 - A good faether 1:16
Track 107 - The beam in Grenley Church 2:17
Track 108 - The vâices that be gone 1:52
Track 109 - Poll 1:40
Track 110 - Looks a-knowd avore 2:12
Track 111 - The music o' the dead 1:45
Track 112 - The pliace a tiales a tuold o' 1:58
Track 113 - Ānt's tantrums 1:43
Track 114 - The stuonen puorch 2:45
Track 115 - Farmers' sons 2:00
Track 116 - Jeän 1:24
Track 117 - The dree woaks 2:26
Track 118 - The huomestead a-vell into han' 3:08
Track 119 - The d'rection post 2:05
Track 120 - Jeän o' Grenley Mill 2:11
Track 121 - The bells of Alderburnham 2:11
Track 122 - The girt wold house o' mossy stuone 5:14
Track 123 - Eclogue: The times 13:37
Track 124 - A witch 2:46

Recorded by T L Burton.