Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Last day for #FAWM 2026, and I'm battling a flu, but had a re-read of The Grey Havens chapter in 'The Return of the King' and wrote this.
I know #Tolkien purists will come after me for pronouncing C as an S in Cirdan, so I'll fix it if I ever finish my Tolkien album.
@MalcolmGuitespell recently read part of this chapter:
youtube.com/watch?v=liZsbbBIcZg
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Last day for #FAWM 2026, and I'm battling a flu, but had a re-read of The Grey Havens chapter in 'The Return of the King' and wrote this.
I know #Tolkien purists will come after me for pronouncing C as an S in Cirdan, so I'll fix it if I ever finish my Tolkien album.
@MalcolmGuitespell recently read part of this chapter:
youtube.com/watch?v=liZsbbBIcZg
Purchase my music:
ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com
Website (Lyrics and Chords):
folklounge.org/lyrics-and-chords
![The Bonnie Banks o Fordie [ Child Ballad No. 14 ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RRpwsvfm0EI/mqdefault.jpg "The Bonnie Banks o Fordie [ Child Ballad No. 14 ]
Back to my efforts to get Volume 1 of the Francis Child collection recorded this year.
This is variant E in Child:
https://archive.org/details/englishandscotti01chiluoft
As published in George Kinloch:
https://archive.org/details/ancientscottishb01kinl
(with an interesting addtion about the death of Ragnar Lodbrog)
Loudon (not clear why that make him a Robber) is from Lothian, named after the #Arthurian King Lot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothian
The photo of the Karna church is by Håkan Svensson Xauxa, from the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B6res_d%C3%B6ttrar_i_W%C3%A4nge
The church is related to the Swedish folk song, which is probably the origin of the one collected in the UK.
Woodblock illustration is by Charles Hodge Mackie.
#ChildBallads
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Website (Lyrics and Chords):
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