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Nature Songs | Forgotten Melodies #12
Get ready to escape to the lake isle of Innisfree, because for the penultimate episode of Forgotten Melodies we're talking all about Nature Songs!
We explore the English trees and plants which have inspired folk musicians, poets and all true Romantics, and the songs which use them as motifs.
First, we look at stone cold classic A North Country Maid, and its oak, ash and bonny ivy.
More oak and ash abound in our second selection, A Tree Song, written by Rudyard Kipling for the 1906 book Puck of Pook's Hill, and set to music by Peter Bellamy.
The third song might just be the best known song…
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