Commenting on my recent Pentangle post, friend of the Blog, Mead Hunter, praised that group’s stirring version of the “Lyke Wake Dirge” – a traditional English song about the soul’s travels after death. The verse is also a cautionary tale: Be charitable and kind to others, or karma’s gonna getcha.
You will find a nice “translation” of the text by Jeff Duntemann here.
I also found this beautiful a capella version by The Young Tradition, a mid-1960s folk revival trio that sang unaccompanied. For some time, they reportedly shared a house with John Renbourne and Bert Jansch from Pentangle. I don't remember having heard them, so this was a nice discovery:
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