“Babbacombe” Lee

~ Release by Fairport Convention (see all versions of this release, 3 available)

Tracklist

12" Vinyl 1
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1John's Reflection on His Boyhood, His Introduction to Miss Keyes and the Glen, His Restlessness, and His Struggles With His Family, Finally Successful, to Join the Navy.
compilation of:
The Verdict (read by Philip Sterling-Wall) by Fairport Convention (English folk rock band), Little Did I Think by Fairport Convention (English folk rock band), I Was Sixteen, Part 1 by Fairport Convention (English folk rock band), John My Son by Fairport Convention (English folk rock band) and I Was Sixteen, Part 2 by Fairport Convention (English folk rock band)
6:19
2This Was the Happiest Period in His Life. All Locked Set Fair for a Career Until He Was Stricken With Sickness and Invalided Out of His Chosen Niche in Life. Reluctantly and Unhappily He Turned to a Number of Menial Occupations and Finally Returned to the Services of Miss Keyes.
compilation of:
St. Ninian’s Isle / Trumpet Hornpipe by Fairport Convention (English folk rock band), Sailors Alphabet by Fairport Convention (English folk rock band) and John Lee by Fairport Convention (English folk rock band)
10:12
3Tragedy Now Strikes Hard. The World's Imagination Is Caught by the Brutal Senseless-Ness of the Apparent Criminal Who Slays His Kind Old Mistress.
compilation of:
Newspaper Reading (read by A.L. Lloyd) by Fairport Convention (English folk rock band) and Breakfast in Mayfair by Fairport Convention (English folk rock band)
3:57
4John Was Hardly More Than a Bewildered Observer at His Own Trial, Not Being Allowed to Say More Than a Few Words. The Tides of Fate Wash Him to the Condemned Cell Where He Waits Three Sad Weeks for His Last Night on Earth.
compilation of:
Trial Song by Fairport Convention (English folk rock band) and Cell Song by Fairport Convention (English folk rock band)
7:31
5When It Comes, He Cannot Sleep, but When He Does, a Strange, Prophetic Dream Comes to Him, and Helps Him to Bear the Strain of His Next Day's Ordeal as Scaffold and Its Crew Try in Vain Three Times to Take His Life.
compilation of:
The Time Is Near by Fairport Convention (English folk rock band), Dream Song by Fairport Convention (English folk rock band) and Wake Up John (Hanging Song) by Fairport Convention (English folk rock band)
13:21