Babbacombe Lee on the FC Wintour

[Dave Russell]

it was good, performing it was hard but satisfying.Its always good to get yr teeth into something a bit out of the ordinary. and of course its good to hear that people like it, and maybe even the critics may come round ,but who really cares?

One of the bands I play with (called "Full House" - spot the influence!) performed the whole thing at the Chester Folk festival, I think it was in 2003.  We included Farewell to a Poor Man's Son and the Carthy ballad from the TV programme plus a bit of extra narration.  We got through it with scarcely a skipped beat and the audience loved it.   So sod the critics, it's a great piece of work, Mr S.

[Swarb]

another fine upstanding gentleman.

[Suttoner]

As a slight aside to the Babbacombe Lee story. While at Cropredy last year and standing in the queue for my T shirt I got into conversation with a very elderly grey whiskered gentleman.  He told me that this was his first time at Cropredy and he had only heard of FC recently after coming across the album while doing research on Babbacombe where he was born and bred.  He then went on to tell me that his grandmother had told him that her Grandmother( or mother or whoever ) knew Mrs Lee and that each time they tried to hang him, his grandmother was up on the moors dancing around a " Lightning Tree" !!!  Magic or what?

[Swarb]

streuth.

[PaulT]

As a slight aside to the Babbacombe Lee story. While at Cropredy last year and standing in the queue for my T shirt I got into conversation with a very elderly grey whiskered gentleman.  He told me that this was his first time at Cropredy and he had only heard of FC recently after coming across the album while doing research on Babbacombe where he was born and bred.  He then went on to tell me that his grandmother had told him that her Grandmother( or mother or whoever ) knew Mrs Lee and that each time they tried to hang him, his grandmother was up on the moors dancing around a " Lightning Tree" !!!  Magic or what?

Coincidence!! (that kept him hanging there...)

[Swarb]

enough already

[Jim]

Wasnt the bit about the old biddy and the lightning tree mentioned in the bbc docu-musical?

[Swarb]

I seem to remember it was.