Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Another song from Joe Offer's collection, The Painful Plough is one I had never heard before, but thanks to being able to write the score with MuseScore 4, I was able to learn the tune and make my own chord progression for this video.
The following is the footnote that is given in the collection:
Source: Words and melody from Roger Huggins, mason, Lydford.
Notes:
Notes taken from Songs of the West by S. Baring-Gould.
It is in reality a much longer song.. Under the title of 'The Ploughboy's Glory' it runs to 25 verses. Bell gives 9 in his 'Ballads of the English Peasantry.' It is found on Broadsides. In the original it consists of a contention between a ploughman and a gardener as to which exercises the noblest profession. Our air is not the same as that to which the song is sung in the Midlands and south-east England . Dr Barrett gives the song in his 'English Folk Songs,' No 3, to a North Country air.
Roud: 355 (Search Roud index at VWML)
Another song from Joe Offer's collection, The Painful Plough is one I had never heard before, but thanks to being able to write the score with MuseScore 4, I was able to learn the tune and make my own chord progression for this video.
The following is the footnote that is given in the collection:
Source: Words and melody from Roger Huggins, mason, Lydford.
Notes:
Notes taken from Songs of the West by S. Baring-Gould.
It is in reality a much longer song.. Under the title of 'The Ploughboy's Glory' it runs to 25 verses. Bell gives 9 in his 'Ballads of the English Peasantry.' It is found on Broadsides. In the original it consists of a contention between a ploughman and a gardener as to which exercises the noblest profession. Our air is not the same as that to which the song is sung in the Midlands and south-east England . Dr Barrett gives the song in his 'English Folk Songs,' No 3, to a North Country air.
Roud: 355 (Search Roud index at VWML)
