Live Recordings (Third Collection)

from William Barnes's Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (Third Collection, 1862)

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Track 1 Woone smile mwore	2:04
Track 2 - The echo	2:03
Track 3 - Vull a man	2:12
Track 4 - Naïghbour plaÿmeätes	2:44
Track 5 - The lark	1:13
Track 6 - The two churches	2:05
Track 7 - Woak Hill	2:04
Track 8 - The hedger	1:46
Track 9 - In the Spring	1:29
Track 10 - The flood in Spring	1:51
Track 11 - Comèn hwome	1:17
Track 12 - Grammer a-crippled	2:53
Track 13 - The castle ruins	2:15
Track 14 - Eclogue: John, Jealous at Shroton Feäir	3:53
Track 15 - Early plaÿmeäte	2:21
Track 16 - Pickèn o' scroff	2:10
Track 17 - Good night	1:19
Track 18 - Went hwome	1:36
Track 19 - The hollow woak	1:11
Track 20 - Childern's childern	2:24
Track 21 - The rwose in the dark	1:14
Track 22 - Come	1:02
Track 23 - Zummer winds	2:00
Track 24 - The neäme letters	2:22
Track 25 - The new house a-gettèn wold	1:24
Track 26 - Zunday	1:47
Track 27 - The pillar'd geäte	3:32
Track 28 - Zummer stream	1:41
Track 29 - Linda Deäne	1:43
Track 30 - Eclogue: Come and zee us in the zummer	1:31
Track 31 - Lindenore	1:19
Track 32 - Me'th below the tree	2:30
Track 33 - Treat well your wife	2:35
Track 34 - The child an' the mowers	1:47
Track 35 - The love child	2:24
Track 36 - Hawthorn Down	1:16
Track 37 - Oben vields	1:50
Track 38 - What John wer a-tellèn his mis'ess out in the corn ground	1:39
Track 39 - Sheädes	1:08
Track 40 - Times o' year	1:14
Track 41 - Eclogue: Racketèn Joe	2:35
Track 42 - Zummer an' winter	0:51
Track 43 - To me	2:28
Track 44 - Two an' two	1:26
Track 45 - The lew o' the rick	1:36
Track 46 - The wind in woone's feäce	1:04
Track 47 - Tokens	1:11
Track 48 - Tweil	3:01
Track 49 - Fancy	1:21
Track 50 - The broken heart	1:17
Track 51 - Evenèn light	1:37
Track 52 - Vields by watervalls	1:48
Track 53 - The wheel routs	2:07
Track 54 - Nanny's new abode	1:49
Track 55 - Leaves a-vallèn	1:40
Track 56 - Lizzie	1:15
Track 57 - Blessèns a-left	2:14
Track 58 - Fall time	1:16
Track 59 - Fall	1:12
Track 60 - The zilver-weed	0:56
Track 61 - The widow's house	1:51
Track 62 - The child's greäve	2:10
Track 63 - Went vrom hwome	1:15
Track 64 - The fancy feäir at Maïden Newton	2:01
Track 65 - Things do come round	3:01
Track 66 - Zummer thoughts in winter time	1:09
Track 67 - I'm out o' door	1:47
Track 68 - Grief an' gladness	1:24
Track 69 - Slidèn	1:52
Track 70 - Lwonesomeness	1:37
Track 71 - A snowy night	1:25
Track 72 - The year-clock	4:14
Track 73 - Not goo hwome to-night	3:05
Track 74 - The humstrum	2:05
Track 75 - Shaftesbury Feäir	2:48
Track 76 - The beäten path	2:38
Track 77 - Ruth a-ridèn	2:50
Track 78 - Beauty undecked	0:41
Track 79 - My love is good	1:54
Track 80 - Heedless o' my love	1:42
Track 81 - The Do'set militia	2:40
Track 82 - A Do'set sale	1:08
Track 83 - Don't ceäre	2:54
Track 84 - Changes [I]	1:42
Track 85 - Kindness	2:10
Track 86 - Withstanders	2:07
Track 87 - Daniel Dwithen, the wise chap	2:11
Track 88 - Turnèn things off	2:41
Track 89 - The giants in treädes	3:01
Track 90 - The little worold	1:48
Track 91 - Bad news	1:22
Track 92 - The turnstile	1:49
Track 93 - The better vor zeèn o' you	2:20
Track 94 - Pity	2:02
Track 95 - John Bloom in Lon'on	5:30
Track 96 - A lot o' maïdens a-runnèn the vields	4:18

Recorded by T L Burton