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This England, This City
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Albion Sunrise
(Richard Thompson)
When the sun comes up in the
morning and you hear the dancing boys
Mother, leave your pots and pans, sister,
leave your toys.
If you have to break a camel's back or pull
the crowds apart,You'll find a way to get
there when that old time music starts.
Chorus: Just down the street
there's a rattling sound,
There's a country band
playing hand me down.
And it's a jamboree.
It was in my father's father's
time, they knew a rolling air,
And the Albion boys will show
you how, they sang it everywhere.
And if you come along with us
you're numbered as a friend
And the faded flower of England
will rise and bloom again.
Chorus: Just down the street
there's a rattling sound,
There's a country band
playing hand me down.
And it's a jamboree.
The dancers standing three and
three are a most illustrious sight;
If someone saw a better one then
you surely know he lied.
You can hear the bells a-ringing as
the singer calls them on,
They can dance away the night and
day and never step it wrong.
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a history of the area of
Aston, Birmingham
Britain's second city has a long history
as a leading centre of trade and market
innovation. Its earliest transformation,
in the 1200’s, from an agriculturally
insignificant village into one of the
greatest industrial cities in the world,
earned it a reputation as
‘The city of a thousand trades’.
the site is about Roman roads,
in particular those that have been
discovered in Birmingham
a history of the ancient parish
of
Handsworth, Birmingham
keeping the past alive
A selection of scanned
photographs and slides
taken between the 1960s
and 1990s, in and around
Birmingham, Bromsgrove,
Smethwick, West Bromwich
and Walsall. Taken by
Keith Berry. Amazing stuff !
histories of a Birmingham
neighbourhood
Local history site for the Perry Barr
area of
Birmingham
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a most interesting article on
two 'lost' radio ballads
The Charles Parker Archive is deposited
in the Birmingham City Archives on the
Seventh Floor of the Central Library.
It consists of tapes, production books,
papers, correspondence and scripts for
most ot the programmes Charles Parker
produced and the organisations in which
he was active.
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