A World Without Horses

Walter Pardon

Walter Pardon was one of England's great traditional singers. He lived all his life in the cottage where he was born in 1914 in the village of Knapton, Norfolk and spent all his working life as a carpenter. In 1974, a tape of his singing was received by the singer Peter Bellamy and this led to him being recognised as an outstanding singer of remarkable style and repertory. He was subsequently recorded extensively for a number of LPs on the Leader, Topic and Home Made Music labels and appeared in folk-clubs and festivals including the one held at the Smithsonian Institute of Folklife in Washington, DC in 1976. He appears in the series The Voice Of The People but this is the first full length CD to be made available and features classic traditional repertoire from one of the true masters of the craft. 

1. The Rambling Blade
2. The Lawyer
3. The Bold Fisherman
4. The Dark Eyed Sailor
5. The Bush of Australia
6. The Female Drummer
7. The Bold Princess Royal
8. The Banks of Sweet Dundee
9. The Deserter
10. The Trees They Do Grow High
11. Two Jolly Butchers
12. The Loss of the Ramillies
13. The Handsome Cabin Boy
14. The Pretty Ploughboy
15. The Cunning Cobbler
16. The Devil & the Farmer's Wife
17. The British Man O' War
18. The Jolly Waggoner
19. The Rakish Young Fellow