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Welcome to the second episode of the second series of The Parson and the Songmen. In this series we follow the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould on further folk song collecting trips, not this time in Devon, but in neighbouring Cornwall. In this episode we visit Helston, in the west of the county, to find out about another Cornish celebration of the arrival of spring, Helston Flora Day.

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Also, please email or use the facebook page (below) if you would be interested in booking me for a gig telling the story of Sabine's song collecting and singing some of the songs he collected.

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Welcome to Series Two of the Parson and the Songmen where we will follow the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould into Cornwall on a new series of folksong collecting trips. This episode focuses on the age-old tradition of welcoming in the spring in the North Cornish town of Padstow on May 1st.
Oss Oss Wee Oss!

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Please contact me at theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, the songs featured, or about The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould in general!

Also, please email or use the facebook page (below) if you would be interested in booking me for a gig telling the story of Sabine's song collecting and singing some of the songs he collected.

Many Thanks to Jon Tidball who is the podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk.

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Check out the website for the Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more information, history, upcoming events, links and friends connected to the Reverend. https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/

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'Zackly what it says on the tin, a selection of songs featured in series one!

Track Listing and Start Times OR CLICK ON CHAPTERS to go straight to each song.

The Egloshayle Ringers 0.54
Spencer The Rover 3.02
The Gypsy 5.53
The Blue Flame 8.41
The Bell Ringing 11.13
The Last Of The Singers 14.50
Tithe Pig 17.31
The Blue Kerchief 21.22
The Slapton Smuggleress/The Sailor Woman 23.21

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Please contact me at theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, the songs featured, or about The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould in general!

Also, please email or use the facebook page (below) if you would be interested in booking me for a gig telling the story of Sabine's song collecting and singing some of the songs he collected.

Many Thanks to Jon Tidball who is the podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk.

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Also thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos

Check out the website for the Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more information, history, upcoming events, links and friends connected to the Reverend. https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/

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This podcast is aimed at those of you who may wish to do some of your own research into the life and folk song collecting of the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould.
You will have heard the titles of some books in the past episodes of this series, so to find out more about them then listen away!
Also below is a list of the texts that are referred to:

'Songs Of The West - Folk Songs of Devon And Cornwall Collected From The Mouths Of The People by S Baring-Gould MA, H Fleetwood Sheppard MA, and FW Bussell Mus Doc DD.
Published by Methuen & Co Ltd. 36 Essex St, W.C. London.

'Early Reminiscences 1834-1864' By S Baring-Gould
'Further Reminiscences 1864-1894' By S Baring-Gould
Both published by John Lane. The Bodley Head Ltd. Vigo St, London.

'Onward Christian Soldier - A Life Of Sabine Baring-Gould, Parson, Squire, Novelist, Antiquary 1834-1924' by Rev William Purcell.
Published by Longmans Green & Co Ltd. 6 & 7 Clifford St, London W1.

'Sabine Baring-Gould - Squarson Writer And Folklorist 1834-1924' by Bickford HC Dickenson. Published by David & Charles, Newton Abbot

'Half My Life - The Story Of Sabine Baring-Gould And Grace' by Keith Lister.
Published by Charnwood Publications, 13 Grove Rd, Horbury, Wakefield, West Yorks.

'As I Walked Out - Sabine Baring-Gould And The Search For The Folk Songs Of Devon And Cornwall' by Martin Graebe.
Published by Signal Books Ltd. 36 Minster Rd, Oxford.

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Please contact me at theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, the songs featured, or about The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould in general!

Also, please email or use the facebook page (below) if you would be interested in booking me for a gig telling the story of Sabine's song collecting and singing some of the songs he collected.

Many Thanks to Jon Tidball who is the podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk.

Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts - The Parson and the Songmen
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Also thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos

Check out the website for the Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more information, history, upcoming events, links and friends connected to the Reverend. https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/

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In this nineteenth episode of The Parson and the Songmen we find out whether the gamble that Sabine took with his inheritance did indeed pay off and whether he would ever reside in his native Devon again...
But, as the title of this podcast may suggest, you may have already guessed the answer!

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Please contact me at theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, the songs featured, or about The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould in general!

Also, please email or use the facebook page (below) if you would be interested in booking me for a gig telling the story of Sabine's song collecting and singing some of the songs he collected.

Many Thanks to Jon Tidball who is the podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk.

Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts - The Parson and the Songmen
https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/

Also thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos

Check out the website for the Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more information, history, upcoming events, links and friends connected to the Reverend. https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/

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In this episode we join Sabine, and his ever growing family, in his cramped vicarage in Yorkshire. Worrying about this overcrowded situation, he receives an offer from the Prime Minister (no less!) to take up a more substantial parish in East Mersea, Essex. Then, after some ten years, Sabine receives news that will set about the wheels of a return to his native West Country...

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Please contact me at theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, the songs featured, or about The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould in general!

Also, please email or use the facebook page (below) if you would be interested in booking me for a gig telling the story of Sabine's song collecting and singing some of the songs he collected.

Many Thanks to Jon Tidball who is the podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk.

Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts - The Parson and the Songmen
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Also thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos

Check out the website for the Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more information, history, upcoming events, links and friends connected to the Reverend. https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/

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Join Sabine on a journey into deep uncharted waters as he discovers the opposite sex! Where will this take him, and just who is the girl that has turned his head? Find out now in the 17th episode of The Parson and the Songmen.

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Please contact me at theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, the songs featured, or about The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould in general!

Also, please email or use the facebook page (below) if you would be interested in booking me for a gig telling the story of Sabine's song collecting and singing some of the songs he collected.

Many Thanks to Jon Tidball who is the podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk.

Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts - The Parson and the Songmen
https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/

Also thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos

Check out the website for the Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more information, history, upcoming events, links and friends connected to the Reverend. https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/

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In this sixteenth episode of the Parson and the Songmen we hear how Sabine is finally ordained and find out whether he makes a success of his early days as a curate in Yorkshire.

Support the Show.

Please contact me at theparsonandthesongmen@outlook.com if you have any questions about the podcast series, the songs featured, or about The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould in general!

Also, please email or use the facebook page (below) if you would be interested in booking me for a gig telling the story of Sabine's song collecting and singing some of the songs he collected.

Many Thanks to Jon Tidball who is the podcast series producer - jontidball@hotmail.co.uk.

Please follow the facebook page for these podcasts - The Parson and the Songmen
https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Parson-and-the-Songmen/100093220748945/

Also thimblerigg videos on YouTube for more songs collected by The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thimblerigg+videos

Check out the website for the Sabine Baring-Gould Centenary Celebration Group - 1924 to 2024 for more information, history, upcoming events, links and friends connected to the Reverend. https://www.sbgcentenary.co.uk/