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Ducks on Ilkley Moor, as in the song "On Ilkla Mooar Baht 'at" (Standard English: On Ilkley Moor without a hat) [2] is a folk song from Yorkshire, England.It is sung in the Yorkshire dialect, and is considered the official anthem of Yorkshire. [3]
Ten Broeck won the race before a record crowd of 30,000. The song commonly states that Ten Broeck "was a big bay horse", and although he was a bay, he was "very compactly built". [6] The song refers to a fatal outcome, which did not in fact occur; Mollie McCarty lived nearly five more years, winning multiple races and producing three foals. [7]
"All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough" (Roud 346) [1] or The Ploughman's Song is an English folk song about the working life of horsemen on an English farm in the days before petrol-driven machinery. Variants have been collected from many traditional singers - Cecil Sharp observed that "almost every singer knows it: the bad singer
The song tells a story about the adventures of a man and his horse, a courageous, sun-colored, green-eyed stallion he nicknamed the "Tennessee Stud". The song's timeline appears to take place during a period of over twenty years, beginning in 1825 and ending after the Great Flood of 1844 .
It has become one of the best-known cowboy songs, found in dozens of collections of American folk music and performed on numerous recordings. [1] Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [2] The song tells the story of a bragging horse breaker who meets his match in a picturesque ...
"Heavy Horses" was released on the Heavy Horses album in April 1978 as the album's eighth track. The song was not released as a single. The track has since appeared on compilation albums such as The Best of Jethro Tull – The Anniversary Collection and The Very Best Of, with the latter album featuring a 3:19 edited version due to the album length.
Live versions of "Pocahontas" were included on Young's 1993 album Unplugged and 1997 album Year of the Horse. [16] Everclear covered the song on their 2008 album The Vegas Years. [17] Emily Loizeau covered the song on her 2005 album L' Autre Bout Du Monde. [18] Gillian Welch covered the song on The Revelator Collection. [19]