Today we visit with another of my early folk favouriites, again first encountered on the legendary ‘Liege and Lief’ album by Fairport Convention. Tam (or Tamas) Lin (also called Tamlane, Tamlin, Tambling, Tomlin, Tam Lien, Tam-a-Line, Tam Lyn, or Tam Lane) is a character in a legendary ballad originating from the Scottish Borders. It is […]
Matty Groves
“Matty Groves”, also known as “Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard” or “Little Musgrave”, is a ballad probably originating in Northern England that describes an adulterous tryst between a young man and a noblewoman that is ended when the woman’s husband discovers and kills them. It is listed as Child ballad number 81 and number 52 […]
Rainbow
Our final saunter around the world of colourful songs ends approriately with the Rainbow. A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc. Rainbows caused by […]
Colours – Honourable Mentions
Today we have a collection of colourful songs which I am entitling ‘Honourable Mentions’ this is because there were not enough entires to warrant to a separate post but it would be a shame if they were not celebrated in some way. So today we will bring to light some of the lesser or more […]
Black
Black is a colour which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic colour, without hue, like white and gray. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white have often been used to describe opposites. Since the Middle Ages, black has been the symbolic […]
Pink
Pink is a colour that is a pale tint of red and is named after the flower of the same name. It was first used as a colour name in the late 17th century. In optics, the word “pink” can refer to any of the pale shades of colours between bluish red to red in […]
Gold
Gold, also called golden, is a colour. The web colour gold is sometimes referred to as golden to distinguish it from the colour metallic gold. The use of gold as a colour term in traditional usage is more often applied to the colour “metallic gold”. The first recorded use of golden as a colour name […]
Silver
Silver or metallic gray is a colour tone resembling gray that is a representation of the colour of polished silver. The visual sensation usually associated with the metal silver is its metallic shine. This cannot be reproduced by a simple solid colour, because the shiny effect is due to the material’s brightness varying with the […]
White
White is the lightest colour and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of fresh snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green […]