Hares On The Mountain / The Knife in the Window

This episode looks at the song Hares on the Mountain aka Blackbirds and Thrushes aka If All the Young Women aka Nancy Lay Sleeping aka The Knife in the Window aka Pretty Polly aka Shepherd So Bold aka Sally My Dear aka Lightning and Thunder aka Crawling and Creeping aka Ain't Gonna Do It No More aka Roll Yer Leg Over

Tracklist

Shirley Collins and Davy Graham – Hares on the Mountain
Harry List – Knife on the Window
AL Lloyd – Pretty Polly
Harry Cox – Knife in the Window
Belinda Kempster and Fran Foote – Knife in the Window
The Three ‘Baccer Tags – Ain’t Gonna Do It No More
Jim Garland – Crawling and Creeping
Dan Tate – Lightning and Thunder
Oscar Brand – Roll Your Leg Over
Fine & Bawdy Wenches – Roll Yer Leg Over
Seamus Ennis – Blackbirds and Thrushes
Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy – Hares on the Mountain
Frankie Armstrong with Maddy Prior – Hares on the Mountain (feat. Maddy Prior)
Radie Peat and Daragh Lynch – Hares on the Mountain
Shirley Collins – Hares on the Mountain

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