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The Factory Girl/ Jinny's Jig

from Goshawk by Carole Pegg & Radik Tülüsh

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Based on the classic song from Irish street singer Margaret Barry, my version was inspired by a visit to Hucknall Church in Nottingham, where my mother Jane ('Jinny') married my father Harry. I discovered that the church houses Byron's family vault. As a girl, I'd no idea that my relatives lived on the border of the Byron Estate. My version of the song imagines an encounter between a rich lord from that estate and my factory-girl mother.

lyrics

As I went a’walking one fine summer’s morning,
The birds in the bushes did whistle and sing,
The lads and the lasses in couples were sporting,
Going back to the factory, their work to begin.

I spied one among them, she was fairer than any,
Her cheeks like red roses, jet black were her curls,
Her skin like the lily that grows in the valley,
Oh she was a hardworking factory girl.

I stepped up to her more closely to view her,
Saying ‘Beauty like this could bring you great fame’.
She said: ‘I am Jane Dear of the bold Linby miners,
I’m a factory girl and I think it no shame.’

‘I have land, I have houses adorned with ivy,
I have gold in my pocket and silver as well,
And if you will go with me, I’ll make you a lady,
No more will you answer the factory bell.’

‘Oh money and temptation ruined many a nation,
There’s many a girl, would go and be glad.
But I love my Harry of Hucca’s Halh valley,
He’s a Butler’s Hill hosiery factory lad.

So away with your gold, your land and your houses,
In Hucknall and Linby are my kith and kin,
And when work is out, I meet with my Harry,
He holds me close and calls me his Jin.

Oh my Harry is sweet, my Harry is handsome,
Proud as a peacock and fit for a king,
Though his father don’t like me, his mother she slights me,
He’ll wed his factory girl in the spring.

With me shoes of fine leather and hat full of feathers,
We’ll dance to the fiddle of my uncle Jim,
I’ll sport with my Harry, together we’ll tarry,
Then go back to the factory, our work to begin.’
CP: vocal, fiddle; RT: Tuvan igil fiddle, shoor flute; sygyt throat-singing.

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from Goshawk, track released June 7, 2014
Carole Pegg: Words (trad augmented & adapted) and Jinny's Jig melody. song melody: trad; Jinny's Jig melody: Carole Pegg
Carole Pegg: vocal, fiddle
Radik Tülüsh: Tuvan igil fiddle, shoor flute; sygyt throat-singing.

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Carole Pegg was lead singer and fiddler with pioneering folk-rock band Mr Fox with an acclaimed solo singer-songwriter album Carolanne Pegg. Radik Tülüsh, was the former wild fiddler with Tuvan band Yat-kha. He is currently a member of Tuvan band Huun-Huur-Tu and has made two solo albums. ... more

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