20th May 2020 - The Nightingale

Now  you may recognise the story in this song. It appears in many variants and under quite a few different titles. Earlier in the series William Duddy played us his USA-derived version "The Bold Grenadier". Here is Phil Harley's version "The Nightingale. He has provided the words in his video for you to sing along with.

https://youtu.be/y5UYglHeGDs

Like me, Phil has an ancient song book (this one from 1967) in which he collected the lyrics.