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Flash Company

from Goshawk by Carole Pegg & Radik Tülüsh

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When I lived in the village of Blaxhall in East Suffolk, singers 'owned' those songs they'd inherited from family or friends. I had ownership of this song while I was there and was always called upon to sing it in tune-ups in 'The Ship' pub. These words are from Suffolk Gypsy singer Phoebe Smith and Percy Web. The tune is Phoebe's. Radik responds with a Tuvan song of lost love learnt from his grandmother.

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Oh once I loved a young man as I loved my life
To keep him in flash company has ruined me quite,
Has ruined my life, like a great many more,
If it hadna been for flash company, I should never been so poor.

Chorus: So it’s take the yellow handkerchief in remembrance of me,
Tie that round your neck my love in your flash company
Flash company’s been the ruin o’ me like a great many more,
If it hadna been for flash company, I should never been so poor.

Oh once I had a colour as red as a rose,
Now my colour has changed, love, like the lily that grows,
Like a flower in the garden with me colour all gone,
Don’t you see what I am coming to for love of that one.

Oh it’s fiddling and a’dancing, sure it was my delight,
Flash company’s been the ruin of me, the ruin of me quite,
Flash company’s been the ruin of me like a great many more,
If it hadna been for flash company, I’d never been so poor.

So come all you pretty fair young maids take a warning by me,
Never build your nest my love in the top of a tree,
For the green leaves will wither and the branches will decay,
And the beauty of a fair young maid will soon fade away.

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from Goshawk, track released June 7, 2014
Traditional: Words & Melody
Carole Pegg: vocals, fiddle
Radik Tülüsh: vocals, Tuvan igil fiddle, borbangnadyr and 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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