Artist: Shirley Collins
Shirley Collins's lyrics & chords
Shirley Collins MBE (born Shirley Elizabeth Collins on 5 July 1935 in Hastings, Sussex) is an award-winning British folksinger who was a significant contributor to the English Folk Revival of the 1960s and 1970s. She often performed and recorded with her sister Dolly Collins, whose accompaniment on piano and portative organ created unique settings for her sister's plain, austere singing style. Collins's seminal recording is considered by many to be 'Anthems in Eden', released in 1969. With her second husband Ashley Hutchings she created the all...read more
Black white yellow and green Adieu to all judges and juries Whitsun dance The blacksmith Blue monk Staines morris The white hare Nellie the milkmaid Go from my window Gathering rushes in the month of may A virgin most pure Honour bright All flowers in broome The tillington poachers The bonny bunch of roses Hopping down in kent Christ made a trance The hunt is up Rockley firs Grooveyard The oxford girl Green fields Are you going to leave me? Salisbury plain White gamekeepers lie sleeping Fair maid of islington Proud maisrie Six dukes The bold fisherman Young girl cut down in her prime Lord gregory Poor sally sits a weeping Dance for two people Love is teasing Sailor from dover Young john The berkshire tragedy Must i go bound Hal an tow Awake awake The bonny ship diamond Jane jane The gentleman soldier The horse named bill Idumæa Mariners farewell Awake awake the split ash tree may carol southover Shepherds arise Short jacket and whirte trouse Tomorrow shall be my dancing day Lady lady The holly bears the crown Willie more Bollweevil holler Lady margaret German tune Bring us in good ale A song story Ca the yowes Black joker The rich irish ladyjeff sturgeon Lullay my liking Harvest home medley Banks of sweet mossom All the pretty little horses Morris medley Side b Otterley Ivo Lorelei Persephone Donimo Beatrix Pandora Amelia Aloysius Cicely
