The Broadside Band - Harvest Home - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

A significant place in the tradition of the English author’s ballad is occupied by songs of satirical and patriotic content - and often, both of these genres are mixed, and there is a unique genre, which is hardly characteristic of other European countries - satirical songs on political topics. But, which is important, even in the most caustic English satire there is always the idea of national pride, which the unscrupulous politicians or unreasonable reforms protrude, or the victory over us is the national hero - a reasonable, clever and self -confident British.

The popular song “Harvesting” (1691) was written by the English composer Henry Persell to the words of the poet D. Dradeen. Initially, she entered the opera “King Arthur”, which glorified the English nation and her glorious affairs, but then she began an independent path. The melody itself (which became the basis for other ballads, or used as a counterdance) and the text that openly protest against the church tax on part of the harvest that appeared just during the creation of the song was popular. Caustic jokes addressed to priests, “because of whose chatter, pudding is only burning” and which has no right to a tenth of peasant works, as well as a call at the end of a drink (until you drop) for “old glorious England” were undoubtedly to many Englishmen Like the energetic and peppy contestance melody, on which there are so tasty references to full barns, ale, butter pies and pudding.