June Tabor - Place Called England (2004)

song : Maggie Holland
piano: Huw Warren
viola: Mark Emerson
soprano sax: Mark Lockheart
bass: Tim Harries
diatonic accordion: Andy Cutting
guitar: Martin Simpson

[@Anekantavad]

The English need to hear this song today, more than ever. There's lots of good in England, and lots to be proud of.

[@MadCapMag]

Not according to this song. According to this song England is only the nature it contains. She’s spitting on the flag and English blood.

[@Anekantavad]

@@MadCapMag Who gets to decide if she is spitting on the English flag and English blood? *YOU,* presumably?

[@cymatic3013]

Yeah right the english want nothing than other than burger kingdom drive throughs.

[@tonyska]

Totally agree ❤

[@EbenezerIan123]

I responded to this song by taking control of my garden - we're still enjoying beetroot, after the carrots, beans & tomatoes !

[@BeautifulSoulgurl]

I cant stop watching this awsome wow my grandma would love this if she was alive she immagrated from Liverpool as a child with her parents 1898 :) RIP My British Grammy Lillian Sarah Rainer

[@CJWard-ot9kk]

this song is brilliant

[@sheenawellington4811]

A fine song written by one great English singer and sung by another!

[@jackdaw7781]

This is what you CALL a song. June Tabor with the new national anthem!!

[@aniavedissian204]

June Tabor is the Queen of Storytellers. England will always be my home :-)

[@jobriath85]

First time I listened through the whole thing (I didn't know about June and the comments put me off) and I loved it. The message is extremely positive. Common-wealth and common ground. If you haven't listened yet, don't be put off, and certainly check out more of this marvellous singer!

[@PaulWardonline]

Gets better every time I hear it

[@robertatkins6608]

A Place called England',Beautiful, my favourite June Tabor song of all time

[@robertatkins6608]

beautiful

[@apples091]

a song of England , in the are auld times, Bragg would love this, Englishness is fine to be proud as is being Irish, or Scottish or Welsh. Uor commonalities are expressed through music like this

[@Bekki369]

One of my favorite songs she does-- and I've been a fan for a long time. Love the chance to see her singing it too....

[@4EyedAnimation]

Wow..June Tabor is amazing...I would love to see her play here in The USA...before its too late.

[@alanlowey5417]

Fantastic!

[@hannahhorsewell7971]

What a beautiful song

[@Landstrider2010]

Thank you for the upload, of a magnificent song, sung by a magnificent singer!!

[@yrtnook]

Beautiful and profound. Thank you!

[@stellataylor3533]

The young'uns version of this is excellent too.

[@woodleybob]

Very good stuff!

[@SteffiReitsch]

Brilliant!

[@capricorniaproject3020]

A favourite song and s message to a hopefully very temporary Prime Minister.

[@neacht]

Such a great song - "secret gardens" a fine metaphor for the lives we all try to live despite the idiocy of our leaders.

[@richH1625]

Great song -thanks for youtubing it -& thanks for bothering to type the credits too.

[@EbenezerIan123]

Any England fans out there?? "England is not FLAG ....."

[@killercd7682]

England IS flag, and a million other things. What you negate is what you are

[@TheAscoltati]

So relevant now...watching this in Sydney as an ex-pat watching his country of birth tear itself apart. 'England is not flag or empire.'

[@onlinemusiclessonsadamphil4677]

❤❤

[@neacht]

Another Irish-Scottish-English (we're all a bit mixed up in these islands let's face it) fan of this great Maggie Holland song.

[@simonbild67]

June tabor part of the last wave of English art culture that meant anything Without constantly refrancing our American Cousans we salute you

[@maxmarnau7019]

Sorry, is that English?

[@4EyedAnimation]

@simonbild67 that is a great song by Tabor Prior!

[@BrendanAshton]

Where I belong

[@mnemonyxx]

Thanks for a note of sense, apples091. Just been catching up on previous replies to replies, which KZbin does not notify to the video poster. Hope they were tongue in cheek.

[@celtick4985]

MaddY !!!!!!

[@EnosEverything]

I think June is slightly better than Ms,Prior... both fantastic though.

[@kaleltheripper]

English isn't a racist term. I'm English and proud to say so, but that does not mean that I condone racist behaviour towards, or from, others.

[@dinerouk]

What we used to call 'patriotism'. Now proscribed by the socialists.

[@lynneceegee8726]

Beautiful. Could someone add ANDY CUTTING - DIATONIC ACCORDION please?

[@Insperato62]

Ebenezerlan - well done! Hope you also make every effort to support British farmers/ producers as far as possible - they need all the help they can get.

[@Lytton333]

A much meatier song in it's lyrical content than most of what passes through the Rock/Pop genre these days. At least it's polemic is presented straightforwardly for all to judge - just like folks songs used to be.. But what a shame that it should generate such poor a poor standard of debate contained in the comments thus far.

[@Evilacidfunker]

@angusferguson please keep your domestic disputes for Christmas morning and not the comment board on youtube, thanks

[@sonjawhite5815]

England - pound shop

[@apples091]

well, I'm Irish and love this song, great folk music, not nationalistic ....just what it is

[@ohpurpled]

If anything it's anti-nationalistic

[@urphyma456]

@apples091 Mr.Bragg or Billy please

[@simonbild67]

Me usbands got no courage in im O dear o dear

[@redcrowdemon]

apples091: I don't know I would even call this 'folk' music - there is more jazz in the keyboard and fiddle work than Cecil Sharpe would have recognised in his orthodox and provincial notions of folk song. But nice song, well sung, and with a 'common-man' touch. Unlike the ghastly 'Roots' by Show of Hands which certainly is nationalistic, IMO.

[@digitig]

The Maggie Holland original was much folkier; June Tabor has jazzed it up a bit. But folk-jazz crossover is hardly new; Pentangle and others were doing it in the 60s.

[@billboysinclaire4756]

love my home but sadly we are finsh'ed

[@fasteddyuk]

Nah. It will change and adapt as it always has.

[@davidevans6432]

2019 and so it continues,

[@SteffiReitsch]

NO YOU'RE NOT!

[@sonjawhite5815]

This place called in England is dead

[@gedofgont1006]

A lovely song, to be sure, although I'm slightly uncomfortable with some of the lyrics. England is as much her culture as it is the land and wildlife - more so, even. We ignore such things at our peril. And the irony of this song being hosted by the BBC is not lost on me, either. That once venerable institution has been entirely usurped by those who have no truck with notions of national sovereignty and pride in one's heritage. If it isn't obvious, it should be: we are on the brink; if we don't stand up soon, England, as a country worth defending, will be lost forever.

[@killercd7682]

It's still negative about England. Negative about our great history, about our flag, and about landowners for some reason. We don't need this kind of negativity. We don't need a mix of love and hate, just the love itself.

[@ricohard1986]

There are plenty of things that are worth being negative about. Those who abuse, who lie, who stoke up hatred and take what should be common wealth to hoard for themselves. Those who would destroy what is beautiful, precious and irreplacible to create an immediate profit for themselves. Those who want us to hate our fellow humans because they born on the otherside of an imaginary line on the map, or because their skin is a different shade to ours or because they love the 'wrong' person or in the 'wrong' way. Our history is great, but that doesn't erase the dark parts, the destruction and the pain and suffering. Our flag is just a piece of cloth, no greater or worse than any other piece of cloth. As for landowners I believe the issue is more that the poor man is still outside the gate. inequality and unfairness is not something to love. Negativity, hate even is often needed... such is the paradox of tolerance.

[@iHoady]

Yes. You think that warrants you to beg for money off the English? After saying how you want to break away and be alone? You can't even afford it. 'WE DONT WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH U ENGLISH NOW LEAVE US ALONE (Oh, by the way, can we borrow £1bn off you please because we need it) Funny, very funny! Weaksauce jock.

[@malcolmry]

There is no such thing as England

[@fasteddyuk]

There is. Check the map.