Name: Ghost of John
Duration: 1 min 56 s
Channel: Traditional/Fugli
Description: The first verse of this is a traditional folk song upon which I decided to expand. The subsequent verses are my own.

Ghost of John

Fugli

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The first verse of this is a traditional folk song upon which I decided to expand. The subsequent verses are my own.

medieval renaissance troubadour broadside songster

Fugli

medieval harmony voice guitar mandolin renaissiance celtic percussion fugue minstrel bard choral classical boroque victorian elizabethan shakespeare

I am a pseudo-medieval musician, scribe and artificer. With layered levels of simple instruments, my sounds are often uniquely archaic. While some of my music is entirely original, most of my numbers are my personal arrangements of renaissance and medieval melodies from antiquity. There's much more information to be found about me on my web site at

Song Info

Genre

Classical • Renaissance

Charts

Peak #174

Peak in subgenre #9

Author

Traditional/Fugli

Rights

Fugli

Uploaded

April 02, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 1.8 MB • 128 kbps • 1:56

Lyrics

Traditional:
have you seen the ghost of John?
long white bones and the flesh all gone.
Oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh
wouldn't it be chilly with no skin on?

Fugli:
The English Isles were his domain.
He did not abdicate his reign
Oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh
War swept ore the Norman plains.

Papal homage did demand
that he obey ho-ly command
Oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh
Excommunication was his reprimand.

In distant cloister did he partake
Where a monk did plot his life to take
Oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh
of a poisonous drought, his thirst did slake

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