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    FOLK SONGS AND FLOWERS

    Jun 30, 2020 2 minutes

    The composer and folk-song collector Ralph Vaughan Williams was in Somerset in 1904, searching for material. At West Harptree, in the Mendip Hills, he heard local farmer William King singing one of the most beautiful of all English folk songs, celebrating summer including the rustic tasks and pleasurable leisure of long days and warm weather. Its lyrics are charming, its tune haunting and evocative. There are

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