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The Bonny Bunch of Roses

from A Number Of Work by Cooper and Toller

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Roud 664. Napoleon Bonaparte was a popular hero in 19th century English folk song, perhaps because the oppressed English working classes saw a Napoleonic victory as a sure-fire route to the sunlit uplands of health, happiness and economic prosperity. The song's words were written by broadside ballad author George Brown. Brown worked in Seven Dials in London, a rough slum area which was a centre for broadside printing. Some authors unable to make a living from their loftier literary endeavours were forced to write broadsides to sell to printers for a shilling each. J & R. M. Wood's Typographic Advertiser of 1863 describes the broadside authors thus: "characteristically drunken bards who had to be locked in a room to elicit sober work from them, and who got round their masters by supping strong drink from a straw through the keyhole." This song is a conversation between Napoleon's ailing son Francois and his mother, Napoleon's second wife Marie Louise. It's a lamentation on living life in the shadow of the reputation of a high-achieving father. The tune comes largely from the New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, where the source is Percy Grainger's 1906 transcription of George Wray from Brigg, Lincolnshire.

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from A Number Of Work, released March 31, 2023

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Cooper and Toller Bristol, UK

Cooper and Toller is an English folk music collaboration between Bristol-based Richard Toller and Gloucestershire-based Vicky Cooper. Cooper and Toller sing solo and in close harmony. Vicky plays fiddles and does occasional clog-dancing, Richard plays guitar, mandolin and banjo. ... more

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