Written by Ewan MacColl for a mass trespass organised by the Manchester Rambling Association across fell land scheduled to be closed to the public.
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@bluemancs2 жыл бұрын
I was born in 64, I remember my dad & his friends singing this, every time they came back to our house for a drink after closing time. Brilliant memories, miss so many of them lovely people.
@stevev238 Жыл бұрын
Born in 72 myself. The Spinners were my late gran's favourite group, though I was the one who took to buying a few of their cassettes when I was in Halls as a student, always warms me to hear one of their old numbers at a jam session.
@Peter-tu1qp5 жыл бұрын
Born an bread in Manchester. A brilliant song by a great group. Spinners music will live 4ever.
5 ай бұрын
Saw them at the Sports Guild last century. The train stops at Crumsall across from where My parents lived.
@tomc64078 жыл бұрын
God be with the days when you could hear all the words. Thank you, Spinners, jonatkin and, of course Ewan.
@robertrowe37099 жыл бұрын
Brings back lovely memories of the 1960s folk revival. Great days.
@barbaracollier41319 жыл бұрын
Played this at my beloved Wilfie's funeral,he was on the mass trespass of kinder,and apparently wrote two of the verses of the song!!!! It summed up his life beautifully,RIP WILF COLLIER,14/07/1923-29/12/2014 A TRULY UNIQUE LOVELY MAN. Your Barb xxx
@AB0VETHALAW7 жыл бұрын
Barbara Collier bless xx
@seannamadra56756 жыл бұрын
Barbara Collier was that Wilf Collier of Reddish ?
@julielowe746211 ай бұрын
I Love this Song and I will defend to the last the Right to Roam !
@lawriemorritt3492Ай бұрын
Good on you Ewan McColl. The rambling situation in Britain has really taken off since his day, and even Dr. Beeching has provided lots of routes for people who want to get out into the countryside. Long live the ramblers. You know what life is all about.
@martinlyons73737 ай бұрын
Long live Lancashire ,England 🏴 And Britain 🇬🇧 ❤❤❤
@philipashbourn15382 ай бұрын
Happy memories of hiking with the Manchester RA during ten years living in the city. Great hikes with wonderful tea stops and a few pints on the stopper bus home. One walk I will never forget finished in Keswick on a cold winter's night at 7pm with the last three hours in complete darkness. Led by hard men and women.
@remlenomis7 жыл бұрын
This is a protest song, written by the 17 year-old Jimmie Miller, later to become Ewan MacColl, to commemorate the mass trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932 by the Ramblers Association and the Manchester branch of the Young Communist Group, of which Miller was a member, in protest against the refusal to allow public rights of way over land privately owned by the Duke of Derbyshire. This censored and de-politicised version of the song removes the two stanzas that refer to this act of civil disobedience, which was met by violence from gamekeepers employed by the Duke, and which cost six ramblers between 2-6 months in prison, but would eventually lead to the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949, the creation of the Peak District as Britain’s first National Park in 1951, and the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. Our access to land was fought for, not granted, and removing the reference to this struggle from this song shows how little the group understood its message. Here are the two missing stanzas: The day was just ending and I was descending Down Grindsbrook, just by Upper Tor, When a voice cried ‘Hey you!’ in the way keepers do, He’d the worst face that ever I saw. The things that he said were unpleasant, In the teeth of his fury I said: ‘Sooner than part from the mountains, I think I would rather be dead.’ He called me a louse and said: ‘Think of the grouse!’ Well I thought, but I still couldn’t see Why all Kinder Scout and the moors roundabout Couldn’t take both the poor grouse and me. He said: ‘All this land is my master’s.’ At that I stood shaking me head: ‘No man has the right to own mountains Any more than the deep ocean bed.’
@Charminglecat7 жыл бұрын
Yes, those stanzas are the vital ones. My parents spent much of their youth avoiding gamekeepers in the Peak District and as a young child I was taught about the mass trespass.
@MyOutdoorsUK5 жыл бұрын
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@1PhoenixRising4 жыл бұрын
Those stanza were also in The Spinners version I heard growing up as a kid. I'm not sure it's "the group" who didn't understand the message so much as it's been watered down (for Y-tube?). Thanks for the reminder!
@whocalledyou56214 жыл бұрын
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@hopethehermit2 жыл бұрын
The Spinners recorded a version that included the two stanzas which are omitted from here. My parents collected pretty much every one of their albums. But I've not seen those albums for nearly 50 years...
@neilsailing8 жыл бұрын
Wonderful old songs and thankfully still alive and well ...the good guys still exist !
@stevev238 Жыл бұрын
Sadly Cliff (The Jamaican-Cuban band member of the Spinners) died not long after emigrating to Aus, all the others are still alive as best I know. They were my late Gran's favourite group.
@PostcardsOfLife10 жыл бұрын
I sent this to the Spinners many moons and my Dad got a phone call saying they were recording it. And they did. Here's To You Sweet England 2011 (original song) Postcards of Life
@RebirthRadio20239 жыл бұрын
This sounds like my life! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO beautiful and important a song.
@MalcCowle10 жыл бұрын
It still makes me want to revisit Kinder. For the record the Mass Trespass was organised by the Manchester Sports Federation, an organisation founded by the Manchester and Salford Area of the Communist Party. Ewan MacColl was its Press Secretary and a member of the CPGB. The Rambler's Association was founded three years after the Mass Trespass and to a certain extent because of it.
@janicerushforth-lee3179 Жыл бұрын
Best
@lydiabarnby39088 жыл бұрын
my grandad loves this song ! ❤
@frankdsouza24253 жыл бұрын
Good for Grandad, Lydia. But what is YOUR opinion??
@konstantineguruli11 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this beautiful video and breathtaking pictures! Thank you
@lefoix46293 жыл бұрын
This songs always makes me happy
@jimbo26293 жыл бұрын
I used to sing this to my children at bedtime. I love the Liverpool (Manchester?) accent of the the spinners because I’m a Scouser.
@aldomir2 жыл бұрын
Fabulous! Absolutely fabulous!
@stevev238 Жыл бұрын
I also had the privilege of seeing Dirty Old Town performed in Media City at Salford, at the Radio 2 Folk Awards virtually just yards from were Ewen had written it. Performed by the Dubliners as part of their short set in acceptance of a well deserved Lifetime Achievement Award.
@stevev425510 жыл бұрын
inspirational. Wish I'd been able to see these guys live. Catches my enthusiasm for the outdoors too
@RuRaynor12 жыл бұрын
My parents met at Manchester Uni and were in the hikinh club together! When tipsy, they often bust this ditty out, along with Whiskey in the Jar. Then the argue about the lyrics, until one rummages up their old Hiking Club songbook XD
@jimmyboomsemtex97353 жыл бұрын
love this song and i have been to some of the places mentioned the hills near manchester are great
@johnpowell9174 Жыл бұрын
I reckon I've walked all the locations in the video. Great song, well performed!
@Mojosbigstick13 жыл бұрын
A verse I hadn't heard before! Thank you!
@frankwalsh11827 жыл бұрын
Love it ,.......the good old days of folk,
@paulross13545 жыл бұрын
We used this song as our opener at the Lamplighter Folk Club in Keswick ... mid to late 1960's
@michaelwatson24363 жыл бұрын
Remember that well, great days. has great significance now with the slaugher on the moors.Have it on a Ewan Mccoll cd.
@AnandaLunaBlue11 жыл бұрын
l just love it! too cute and joyful!
@KieranHill9 жыл бұрын
haha cool i love this the spinners. reminds me of fishing with my dad.
@pb78904 жыл бұрын
This is fantastic
@DClean2 жыл бұрын
My dear old mum was born on a street in Salford Manchester Her brother was buried to this song
@johnpowell91745 ай бұрын
He didn't go by the name of Ewan McColl in those days -his name at that time was Jimmy Miller. He was a brilliant musician.
@iainreynolds19157 күн бұрын
love the spinners, but would love to hear the song about "the happy absentee" all about cricket, can't find it anywhere , if anyone has it please post it,thnaks
@martymcfly55703 жыл бұрын
Queens and 4's laid boys - just moved up North! My two favourite sisters ("my Queens") are up here so I'm loving it - and you Northerners are sooo much friendlier than the Midlanders!!! (my 4's are my boys - good lads but don't bet on them lol)
@ruthgraham43137 жыл бұрын
hello Manchester and Didsbury
@slickmicky5411 жыл бұрын
Went to see the Spinners at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester with Sue Jesson from Macclesfield. Remember Mick from Derby?
@kenttaylor82177 жыл бұрын
superb
@frankdsouza24253 жыл бұрын
No One to Beat the Glorious Spinners. Is there?
@fergiewergie10 жыл бұрын
Not come across midgies in Scotland though has Mr Rambler.
@barttheanorak12 жыл бұрын
I've got MacColl's 83 version of the song but it doesn't have that verse about peat bogs. Wonder if it was a Spinners interpolation...
@Mojosbigstick13 жыл бұрын
@007clooneen It's beautiful. I reckon it's where God goes on a Sunday afternoon, looking for a bit of peace and quiet after listening to our griping in church. The last time I was up there was a clear sparkling summer's day. We all threw ourselves back on the bracken, and lay, gazing at the sky and the view in awe. Then someone said "Ticks...." and we all jumped up again.
@travelbabble39353 жыл бұрын
Sublime! Love from a leeds lad!
@marktaha27019 ай бұрын
Does anyone know what the late fellwalker Alfred Wainwright thought of this song?
@billykershaw2781 Жыл бұрын
Therese Coffey, have you ever been for a walk? It's even said that it is an act of rebellion......si x.
@peterb58377 жыл бұрын
'They were good , very good
@stevebagnall76213 жыл бұрын
I can see our house in the photo of Dinting Arches
@richH162513 жыл бұрын
This is more of a gentle Sunday afternoon stroll & not as jolly(/agresive) as the Dubliners' version on KZbin but I think the spinners get more verses in? Yet they miss out the two main verses of the encounter with the gamekeeper. See the blinddrunkal version. (Yet I think he misses the second verse "There's pleasure in dragging through peat bogs...")
@katedaly16377 жыл бұрын
Rich H ďublld
@chrisamies2141 Жыл бұрын
you really need the gamekeeper verse; for the line 'no man has the right to own mountains, any more than the deep ocean bed.' You can't own what you can't make.
@johnpowell9174 Жыл бұрын
@@chrisamies2141 especially with the despicable behaviour of Darwall, trying to stop wild camping on Dartmoor.
@TheLivingHeiromartyr9 жыл бұрын
Should've got married ont moor!
@Jeremycorbin3 жыл бұрын
From Stoke up the moors every other weekend.
@johnhaines2026 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know when this was recorded? What album etc? It is such an accomplished version, a sort of 'at their peak' (pardon the pun!) sort of thing.
@jbz20794 жыл бұрын
I've got this exact recording on The Spinners Are In Town, Tonetana Records is that's any help.
@shuddupeyaface3 жыл бұрын
You don't have to be a communist to understand the deep sentiment, meaning and beauty of this song.
@peterb58377 жыл бұрын
Perfect diction
@codybuckler60276 жыл бұрын
this is more of a train song
@misssteak56464 жыл бұрын
Now Manchestercoachramblers.group. walking ever week. Look us up.
@billykershaw2781 Жыл бұрын
This is how you spin things, better live than Zep.