MIKE BOSWORTH SINGS

This CD is a mixture of songs from The Rev Sabine Baring-Gould collection. Most of the songs are from his song book, Songs of the West (S.O.T.W.). Some of the songs I have been singing since the 1960's. Others I have learned since then having spent many hours researching the songs the Rev Gentleman took down from singers in the late 19th and early 20th century.

In all, Sabine collected over 800 of these songs, which are part of our musical heritage and if he had not undertaken the task at the suggestion of his friend Mr. Daniel Radford over dinner one evening in 1888, they may have been lost forever. When these songs were sung at the many events that celebrated the agricultural year, or the miners' pay day in the local pub. They would have been more than likely sung unaccompanied.