Matty Groves, Fairport Convention
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‘Matty Groves.’
‘Matty Groves.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENgSh0oSe_s
‘Matty Groves.’
A slightly less macabre version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENgSh0oSe_s
Slightly.
‘Matty Groves.’
‘Matty Groves.’
“Matty Groves.”
Matty Groves
I suspect that I am going to go on an extended folk music jag before too much longer.
“Matty Groves”
Matty Groves
This is what we call a catalog of poor life choices. On everyone’s part: that’s how you know that it’s an authentic folk song.
“Matty Groves”
Christopher Stasheff once said of this ballad that it was the one a wise minstrel performed when he was called in to distract his patrons from an unfortunate dispute, on the principle that whatever had happened, it was unlikely to have been worse than the plot.
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Yes, I know that there’s half a dozen reasons why Chris Stasheff was spouting off nonsense there. And?
Moe Lane
PS: It’s a murder ballad. They all incorporate poor lifestyle decisions on the part of their participants. And this isn’t even the version with the typical ending.