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YOUTUBE

On YouTube, the easiest way to find us is to go to lifeandtimesuk’s channel. More specifically you can find these songs:

 

Videos of parts of the WHERE THE WORKING BOATS WENT show including acting and songs during live performance at The White Horse Folk Festival 2012:

 

 

Other videos:

 

 

SOUNDCLOUD

At http://soundcloud.com/lifeandtimes-uk you can hear:

·         Banbury White Horse/Four Up (Goodman)

·         One Man’s Morris/Ampthill Sunrise (Meek/Goodman)

·         Robert Bloomfield’s Jig (Meek)

·         The Bedfordshire Clanger (Meek)

·         Dunstable Downs Midsummers Day Song (Meek)

·         The Life & Times of Henry Claydon, Highwayman (Meek)

·         Plough Monday Song (Meek)

·         All In The Wintertime (Goodman)

·         The Duke Of Bridgewater (Meek)

·         Iced In (Goodman)

·         Sand (Meek)

·         The Engine Boy (Goodman)

·         Where The Working Boats Went (Meek)

·         Wareham Court Leet (Meek)

 

REVERBNATION

At www.reverbnation.com/lifeandtimesuk you can hear:

·         One Man’s Morris/Ampthill Sunrise (Meek/Goodman)

 

WAREHAM COURT LEET

At the Wareham Court Leet website you can hear the song that has in recent time become part of an old tradition. It accompanies an embedded YouTube illustrative slideshow:

  • Wareham Court Leet (Meek)

 

WITCH OF CONGER HILL

Click here to find our song about a former local tradition in Toddington, Bedfordshire:

  • The Witch Of Conger Hill (Meek)

 

WATERWAYS SONGS

At the Waterways Songs website you can hear snippets of several of our canal songs. Look for the songs written by Graeme Meek or Barry Goodman.

 

FACEBOOK

If you’re on Facebook, you can try this link to see a video of part of our song Narrow Boats To Tow performed live at Banbury’s Theatre in The Dock in July 2011.

 

ALREWAS CANAL SONG DVD PROJECT

Alrewas Canal Song DVD Project is a collection of recordings of mainly recently produced canal songs from writers around the country. Our song Where The Working Boats Went features amongst the others. The song accompanies a slideshow of mainly canal pictures but also a few of us too. British Waterways agreed to incorporate the DVD project concept into the launch publicity for its new charity in 2012.

 

MYSPACE

Myspace now expects the user to log in to hear music:

At www.myspace.com/broadsidesrevisited you can hear:

·         Dunstable Downs Midsummers Day Song (Meek)

·         The Life & Times of Henry Claydon, Highwayman (Meek)

·         Plough Monday Song (Meek)

·         All In The Wintertime (Goodman)

·         The Duke Of Bridgewater (Meek)

·         Iced In (Goodman)

·         Sand (Meek)

·         The Engine Boy (Goodman)

 

 

 

WORDS & MUSIC

WORDS AND MUSIC TO SOME OF OUR

SONGS AND TUNES

CAN ALSO BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET

 

 

Click here to find the words and music for:

  • The Far Wastes of Van Diemen’s Land (Meek)

 

Click here to find the words (not credited!) for :

  • Wareham Court Leet (Meek)

 

Click here to find the words and music to:

  • The Engine Boy (Goodman)

 

Click here and go to page 5 to find the words to:

  • Until The Cut Runs Dry (Meek)

 

Click here and go to page 15 to find the words and music to:

  • Bedfordshire Ale (Meek)

 

Click here to find the words to:

  • Charles Wells & Josephine Grimbley (Meek)

 

Click here to find the music for:

  • Robert Bloomfield’s Jig (Meek)

 

Click here to find the words and music for the song and tune:

  • The Bridge Down The Meadow (Meek)
  • Over the Bridge (Goodman)

 

Click here to find the words and music for:

·         The Toddington Tour

·         The Toddington Gallon

·         The Witch of Conger Hill

 

 

 

 

*These songs include the voices of children from Marston Vale Middle School choir.