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#diatonicmelodeon

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫<p>I've posted this before, but now it's on YouTube, and I wasn't happy with the vocals in the previous version so I fixed them up a little bit. This is my setting of a bitter, but witty, little poem about the Inclosure Acts in England, which converted common land that people who weren't landowners could use to graze livestock and such into private land only the owners could access. It's slightly topical, since it relates to the government taking away well-established rights. Governments have done that for a long time, it seems.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqZR5VwyaFw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=iqZR5VwyaF</span><span class="invisible">w</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/folkmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folkmusic</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/englishfolk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>englishfolk</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/diatonicmelodeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diatonicmelodeon</span></a></p>
𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫<p>There's a cute little piece of 18th-century doggerel about the Enclosure Act in England called "Goose and Common." The enclosures were a disaster for the English working class; you can draw a straight line from them all the way to the coal strikes during the Thatcher administration, and probably further than that. That's probably why every setting of the lyric I've encountered is all minor-key and dirge-like. But it's still witty and clever, and I thought it deserved a livelier tune, so I wrote one. </p><p>Warning: I'm no singer. You'll see what I mean. But I'm the one I have.</p><p><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/y3eliov6iqafw3h/Goose%20and%20Common.mp3?dl=0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dropbox.com/s/y3eliov6iqafw3h/</span><span class="invisible">Goose%20and%20Common.mp3?dl=0</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/folkmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folkmusic</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/diatonicmelodeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diatonicmelodeon</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/buttonaccordion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>buttonaccordion</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/englishfolk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>englishfolk</span></a></p>
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