Live Recordings (Second Collection)

from William Barnes's Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (Second Collection, 1859)

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Track 2 - My orcha'd in Lindèn Lea 1:23
Track 3 - Bishop's Caundle 3:55
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Track 5 - A father out an' mother hwome 2:23
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Track 7 - Day's work a-done 1:29
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Track 13 - The leädy's tower 6:52
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Track 15 - The Maïd o' Newton 2:04
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Track 17 - Meäry's smile 1:32
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Track 25 - Our fathers' works 1:54
Track 26 - The wold vo'k dead 3:14
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Track 28 - Our be'thplace 2:07
Track 29 - The window freämed wi' stwone 2:09
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3:09
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0:51
2:15
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Track 39 - Bleäke's house 4:32
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2:17
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Track 50 - The slantèn light o' fall 2:27
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Track 60 - Sound o' water 1:26
2:09
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4:03
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Track 66 - The winter's willow 2:48
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Track 76 - Married peäir's love-walk 2:40
Track 77 - A wife apraïs'd 2:09
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Track 81 - Vo'k a-comèn into church 1:41
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3:05
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Track 88 - Eclogue: John an' Thomas 3:37
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3:13
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Track 93 - Zelling woone's honey to buy zome'hat sweet 2:48
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Track 97 - The turn o' the days 2:06
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4:05
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2:09
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Track 103 - My love's guardian angel 1:52
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Track 105 - Praise o' Do‘set 3:03

Recorded by T L Burton.