Live Recordings (Second Collection)

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

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Track 1 Blackmwore maïdens	1:54
Track 2 - My orcha'd in Lindèn Lea	1:23
Track 3 - Bishop's Caundle	3:55
Track 4 - Hay meäkèn—nunchen time	3:06
Track 5 - A father out an' mother hwome	2:23
Track 6 - Riddles	5:45
Track 7 - Day's work a-done	1:29
Track 8 - Light or sheäde	0:50
Track 9 - The waggon a-stooded	6:23
Track 10 - Gwaïn down the steps vor water	2:24
Track 11 - Ellen Brine ov Allenburn	2:11
Track 12 - The motherless child	1:26
Track 13 - The leädy's tower	6:52
Track 14 - Fatherhood	3:45
Track 15 - The Maïd o' Newton	2:04
Track 16 - Childhood	1:43
Track 17 - Meäry's smile	1:32
Track 18 - Meäry wedded	2:06
Track 19 - The stwonen bwoy upon the pillar	2:56
Track 20 - The young that died in beauty	2:08
Track 21 - Fäir Emily of Yarrow Mill	1:40
Track 22 - The scud	2:32
Track 23 - Mindèn house	2:33
Track 24 - The lovely maïd ov Elwell Meäd	2:03
Track 25 - Our fathers' works	1:54
Track 26 - The wold vo'k dead	3:14
Track 27 - Culver Dell and the squire	2:56
Track 28 - Our be'thplace	2:07
Track 29 - The window freämed wi' stwone	2:09
Track 30 - The waterspring in the leäne	1:26
Track 31 - The poplars	1:44
Track 32 - The linden on the lawn	3:09
Track 33 - Our abode in Arby Wood	0:55
Track 34 - Slow to come, quick agone	0:51
Track 35 - The vier-zide	2:15
Track 36 - Knowlwood	3:33
Track 37 - Hallowed pleäces	4:05
Track 38 - The wold wall	1:48
Track 39 - Bleäke's house	4:32
Track 40 - John Bleäke at hwome at night	2:03
Track 41 - Milkèn timen	1:39
Track 42 - When birds be still	1:53
Track 43 - Ridèn hwome at night	2:31
Track 44 - Zun-zet	1:51
Track 45 - Spring	1:18
Track 46 - The zummer hedge	2:17
Track 47 - The water crowvoot	1:49
Track 48 - The lilac	1:51
Track 49 - The blackbird [II]	1:39
Track 50 - The slantèn light o' fall	2:27
Track 51 - Thissledown	0:54
Track 52 - The may-tree	1:14
Track 53 - Lydlinch bells	2:41
Track 54 - The stage coach	2:15
Track 55 - Wayfeärèn	2:32
Track 56 - The leäne	4:29
Track 57 - The raïlroad [I]	1:13
Track 58 - The raïlroad [II]	0:55
Track 59 - Seats	1:56
Track 60 - Sound o' water	1:26
Track 61 - Trees be company	2:09
Track 62 - A pleäce in zight	1:43
Track 63 - Gwaïn to Brookwell	3:50
Track 64 - Brookwell	4:03
Track 65 - The shy man	3:45
Track 66 - The winter's willow	2:48
Track 67 - I know who	1:36
Track 68 - Jessie lee	1:52
Track 69 - True love	2:38
Track 70 - The beän-vield	2:04
Track 71 - Wold friends a-met	2:59
Track 72 - Fifehead	1:44
Track 73 - Ivy Hall	2:02
Track 74 - False friends-like	1:00
Track 75 - The bachelor	2:17
Track 76 - Married peäir's love-walk	2:40
Track 77 - A wife apraïs'd	2:09
Track 78 - The wife a-lost	1:36
Track 79 - The thorns in the geäte	1:46
Track 80 - Angels by the door	1:47
Track 81 - Vo'k a-comèn into church	1:41
Track 82 - Woone rule	1:20
Track 83 - Good Meäster Collins	3:17
Track 84 - Herrenston	3:05
Track 85 - Out at plough	2:42
Track 86 - The bwoat	1:46
Track 87 - The pleäce our own ageän	1:50
Track 88 - Eclogue: John an' Thomas	3:37
Track 89 - Pentridge by the river	2:13
Track 90 - Wheat	2:51
Track 91 - The meäd in june	3:13
Track 92 - Early risèn	0:57
Track 93 - Zelling woone's honey to buy zome'hat sweet	2:48
Track 94 - Dobbin dead	3:12
Track 95 - Happiness	2:15
Track 96 - Gruffmoody Grim	3:41
Track 97 - The turn o' the days	2:06
Track 98 - The sparrow club	2:44
Track 99 - Gammony Gaÿ	4:05
Track 100 - The heäre	2:49
Track 101 - Nanny Gill	2:09
Track 102 - Moonlight on the door	1:47
Track 103 - My love's guardian angel	1:52
Track 104 - Leeburn Mill	1:38
Track 105 - Praise o' Do‘set	3:03

Recorded by T L Burton.