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The Sheepstealer

from A Number Of Work by Cooper and Toller

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Roud 1667. The tune for The Sheepstealer comes from glove-maker Edith Sartin from Corscombe, Dorset and the words from George Dowden of Lackington, also in Dorset. They're both in the Hammond and Gardiner collection where they date from 1906. Glove-making was a cottage industry with each worker specialising in a particular part of the glove. It would have been monotonous work and singing songs may have helped to pass the time. The song is also known as 'The Brisk Lad'. Its plot takes place in a time when anyone caught stealing livestock or poaching would have been harshly punished by the legal system, and labourers in Dorset were among the poorest in the England. It's a kind of defiant and angry protest song set almost entirely in the future tense: our protagonist is telling us what he plans to do. No sheep were actually harmed.

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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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