{"id":2162,"date":"2018-07-27T08:14:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T07:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2021-03-23T17:57:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T17:57:39","slug":"babes-in-the-wood-magpie-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/babes-in-the-wood-magpie-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Babes in the Wood (Magpie Lane)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Play recording: Babes in the Wood (Magpie Lane)<\/h2>\n\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2162-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/babes-in-the-wood-magpie-lane.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/babes-in-the-wood-magpie-lane.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/babes-in-the-wood-magpie-lane.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/babes-in-the-wood-magpie-lane.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"dmeite\">\n<p><span id=\"neasc-nocht-ceilth\" class=\"nmeite\">view \/ hide recording details [+\/-]<\/span><\/p>\n<ul id=\"clarMeiteashonrai\" class=\"meiteashonrai\">\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teideal <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Title)<\/span>:<\/span> Babes in the Wood (Magpie Lane).<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chnuasach Bh\u00e9aloideas \u00c9ireann <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(National Folklore of Ireland Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Roud <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Roud Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 288.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> Q34.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Child <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Child Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Cnuasach <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Collection)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teanga na Cro\u00edmh\u00edre <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Core-Item Language)<\/span>:<\/span> English.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Catag\u00f3ir <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Category)<\/span>:<\/span> song.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a thug <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Informant)<\/span>:<\/span> Magpie Lane (1993\u20131998 line-up: Ian Giles, Andy Turner, Tom Bower, Mathew Green, Joanne Acty, Peter Acty \u204a Di Whitehead).<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a th\u00f3g <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Collector)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 1995.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> Woodworm Studios, Oxfordshire, England.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> studio album recording.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Daoine eile a bh\u00ed i l\u00e1thair <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Others present)<\/span>:<\/span> Mark Tucker (recording engineer).<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">St\u00e1das ch\u00f3ipcheart an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording copyright status)<\/span>:<\/span> \u00a9 Beautiful Jo Records. All rights reserved.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">St\u00e1das ch\u00f3ipcheart \u00e1bhair bhreise <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Additional material copyright status)<\/span>:<\/span> Album artwork and band photograph \u00a9 Beautiful Jo Records. All rights reserved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"a:nota\u00ed\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"ainm-\u00fadair\">By M\u00ed\u010be\u00e1l \u00d3&nbsp;Lo\u010blainn<\/p>\n<h3>Compare and contrast<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"micil-figi\u00far-aonair-deas\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/mbm\/magpie-lane_wassail-a-country-christmas.png\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/mbm\/magpie-lane_wassail-a-country-christmas.png\" alt=\"The album cover artwork for the Wassail! album. Painting of people, in historical dress, feasting and making merry.\">\n\t<\/a>\n\t<figcaption>The <cite>Wassail!<\/cite> album cover.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>An example of the native <em>English<\/em> folk singing tradition, this extract from <cite class=\"amhr\u00e1n\">Babes in the Wood<\/cite>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magpielane.co.uk\/sleevenotes\/wassail\/babes_in_the_wood.htm\">track 14<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magpielane.co.uk\/\">Magpie Lane<\/a>\u2019s third album, the sublime <cite class=\"albam-ceoil\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magpielane.co.uk\/sleevenotes\/wassail\/index.htm\">Wassail! A Country Christmas<\/a><\/cite>, was added to the Cartlanna to complement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/babes-in-the-wood\/\">the version sung by Joe Heaney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This song also gives us an example of how songs (just like stories, themes and motifs) cross-seed and propagate across native traditions, both nationally and internationally. Clearly, it echos elements of the famous German fairy tale, <cite class=\"sc\u00e9al\">Hansel and Gretel<\/cite>. But as noted in the entry for Joe\u2019s version, it actually originates in English folklore, deriving from a story of the same name and reportedly based on events that took place in Wayland Wood, Norfolk, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Anglia\">East Anglia<\/a> region of England.<\/p>\n<p>Like so many traditional songs, <cite class=\"amhr\u00e1n\">Babes in the Wood<\/cite> has travelled widely. It\u2019s part of the generational repertoire of the <a href=\"http:\/\/folkopedia.efdss.org\/wiki\/Copper_Family\">Copper family<\/a> of Rottingdean, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sussex\">Sussex<\/a>, some 170 miles from Wayland Wood, on England\u2019s south coast. It\u2019s part of Magpie Lane\u2019s, who are based in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oxford\">Oxford<\/a>, a hundred miles north-west of Rottingdean. And of course, it was part of Joe\u2019s \u2014 bringing it four hundred years, four hundred and fifty miles, three countries and a stretch of sea away from where it started; although unfortunately, we don\u2019t know where on his extensive travels Joe picked it up, or from whom.<\/p>\n<h3>Ny Kirree fo Niaghtey<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"micil-figi\u00far-aonair-deas\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/mbm\/magpie-lane_ba\u00edll-1994.png\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/mbm\/magpie-lane_ba\u00edll-1994.png\" alt=\"The band-members, smiling, in historical costume, with their musical instruments.\">\n\t<\/a>\n\t<figcaption>The Magpie Lane line-up in 1994.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Readers who enjoy the singing traditions of the other Celtic countries may be interested in track 3 of <cite class=\"albam-ceoil\">Wassail!<\/cite> \u2014 <cite class=\"amhr\u00e1n\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magpielane.co.uk\/sleevenotes\/wassail\/sheep_neath_the_snow.htm\">The Sheep are neath the Snow<\/a><\/cite>. This is an English language version of the Manx song <i class=\"cor-cainte-teangan-eile\">Ny Kirree fo Niaghtey<\/i>. (The English title is essentially a direct translation of the Manx original. For reference, the Irish equivalent would be <i class=\"cor-cainte-teangan-eile\">Na Caoirigh faoi Sheachta<\/i>.)<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Ny+Kirree+Fo+Niaghtey\">a number of versions in Manx Gaelic<\/a> available on YouTube. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ScfW-060WUI\">This one<\/a>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barruletrio.com\/\">Barrule Trio<\/a>, might be a good \u2014 and quite pertinent \u2014 place to start.<\/p>\n<h3>Thanks and credits<\/h3>\n<p>We\u2019re grateful to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magpielane.co.uk\/\">Magpie Lane<\/a>, especially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magpielane.co.uk\/andyturner\/\">Andy Turner<\/a>, and to <a href=\"http:\/\/bejo.co.uk\/tim\/html\/page1.htm\">Tim Healey<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/bejo.co.uk\/\">Beautiful Jo Records<\/a>, for allowing us to use this recording in the Cartlanna and to reproduce the album cover and band photo.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daoine-eile","category-daoine-eile-amhrain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}