Twa Corbies

from Choice Company by Pig's Ear

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Two Corbies is an imagined conversation between two scavengers as they eagerly prepare to clean up the evidence from some murder or raid by the Border Reivers. The words are traditional in Scotland, set to a tune based on an ancient Breton melody Al Alar'ch, 'The Swan', by R.M. Blythman of Thurso, printed in Norman Buchan's 101 Scottish Songs.

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from Choice Company, released December 31, 2002
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Pig's Ear was a family folk group that entertained audiences from the late 1980s to 2011, with a mix of carefully collected and researched traditional folk, self-penned songs and creative musical arrangements. Based in Kent, near the Sussex & Surrey border, in 2003 they started a small festival 'The Pig's Ear Folk Ale' at Markbeech, Kent which is still going today - folkale.co.uk ... more

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