JOHN HODGSON’S WHITE HORSE SONG
(The Yorkshire Horse)
2007 was the 150 anniversary of the making of the White Horse at Kilburn, North Yorkshire and Tony Morris was asked by the Tyneside Poet, Dr Keith Armstrong, to write some poems and to perform them with music at the White Horse for a film he was organising. Tony wrote this song as well as some poems and performed live to camera
( click here). Since this first performance the song has become a favourite with folk club audiences.
TUPPIN’ TIME IN YORKSHIRE
One of Tony Morris’s previous occupations was a sheep farmer so, when he was going back to Whitby one day in November/December and saw a field of ewes with their tails marked by the crayon borne by the tup (ram), this song was conceived!
IRONSTONE MINERS’ MARCH
At the time of writing the songs that appear on Tony Morris’s ‘Trappy Lad’ CD, Tony did not know this story. It was told to him by Mike Benson, now Director of Bede's World but then the Director of the Ryedale Folk Museum where Tony Morris gave his launch performance for the CD.
JUBILEE
A year or two ago a small earthquake disturbed Tony Morris’s sleep. In the morning he woke up singing this song. Shortly afterwards he performed it at Ralph Butterfield Primary School at Haxby near York and by the second chorus the whole school was singing along without even being invited to join in.
RATTLING
The Ship Inn stands on the edge of the shore at Saltburn facing the wild weather of the North Sea. In the past it was run by John Andrews who appears in a folk song as a smuggler by repute, owner of a ship, The Morgan Rattler. The Mermaid and the Eagle were Royal Navy ships tasked with catching smugglers. John Andrews was also a founder and Master and Huntsman of the Saltburn and Cleveland Foxhounds. His descendants followed him in these offices for many years.
Tony Morris was returning from the Saltburn Folk Club at The Marine Hotel one foul winter night and saw a rat scurry up from the shore and go sniffing round the Ship Inn. A song was conceived that took a year to write.
(The Yorkshire Horse)
2007 was the 150 anniversary of the making of the White Horse at Kilburn, North Yorkshire and Tony Morris was asked by the Tyneside Poet, Dr Keith Armstrong, to write some poems and to perform them with music at the White Horse for a film he was organising. Tony wrote this song as well as some poems and performed live to camera
( click here). Since this first performance the song has become a favourite with folk club audiences.
TUPPIN’ TIME IN YORKSHIRE
One of Tony Morris’s previous occupations was a sheep farmer so, when he was going back to Whitby one day in November/December and saw a field of ewes with their tails marked by the crayon borne by the tup (ram), this song was conceived!
IRONSTONE MINERS’ MARCH
At the time of writing the songs that appear on Tony Morris’s ‘Trappy Lad’ CD, Tony did not know this story. It was told to him by Mike Benson, now Director of Bede's World but then the Director of the Ryedale Folk Museum where Tony Morris gave his launch performance for the CD.
JUBILEE
A year or two ago a small earthquake disturbed Tony Morris’s sleep. In the morning he woke up singing this song. Shortly afterwards he performed it at Ralph Butterfield Primary School at Haxby near York and by the second chorus the whole school was singing along without even being invited to join in.
RATTLING
The Ship Inn stands on the edge of the shore at Saltburn facing the wild weather of the North Sea. In the past it was run by John Andrews who appears in a folk song as a smuggler by repute, owner of a ship, The Morgan Rattler. The Mermaid and the Eagle were Royal Navy ships tasked with catching smugglers. John Andrews was also a founder and Master and Huntsman of the Saltburn and Cleveland Foxhounds. His descendants followed him in these offices for many years.
Tony Morris was returning from the Saltburn Folk Club at The Marine Hotel one foul winter night and saw a rat scurry up from the shore and go sniffing round the Ship Inn. A song was conceived that took a year to write.