Steeleye Span The weaver and the factory maid
About a man getting caught in the switch from hand to steam weaving and losing his steam weaving girl friend.
Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do7epBepl8U&fmt=18
There was a great bitterness felt between the hand-loom weavers and those who worked on the steam looms introduced during the industrial revolution. This feeling polarised in the Luddites who where unemployed hand-loom weavers bent on destroying the steam looms which had put them out of work.
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maddydoesnotlikeyoulimey,
well,hooray for me!!!! limejuicer
I literally can’t …
I literally can’t go anywhere near a Steeleye video without seeing your pathetic comments.
Man was the jethro …
Man was the jethro tull guy a dumb fool a typical englishman
glad you like it!
glad you like it!
Thank you for …
Thank you for uploading jonasjar! It´s a song which is not only lovely, but has also so much history background…!
Unfortunately this …
Unfortunately this is all I have with Steeleye, so there wasnt any chosing among versions involved. Yes lyrics is a nice touch (and also more work!) but sometimes people complain about it, but not on this one so far
Great! Thanks for …
Great! Thanks for uploading with lyrics. I don’t know though. I’m a major Steeleye Span fan, I’ve got literally all their albums on CD (and on CD they’re hard to find) so I’ve thought about this for a long time. I actually prefer the version they released on Present. I just found it cleaner and more pleasing. Still, thanks for uploading this one!
yes I agree it has …
yes I agree it has many interesting and contrasting components. I grew up reading the lyrics along with the music and not being my mother tounge it enhances comprehension, and in lyrics like these, I find the phrases and old words beatiful even to look at. This wasnt my favorite song of the album but I wanted to do a song that wasnt already uploaded, and this one just happened to be quite easy to illustrate.
God I love this …
God I love this song. Something about the power of Maddy’s vocal in counterpoint with Peter Knight’s violin (and Kemp’s punchy bass), and the lyric’s thematic contrast between the blossoming of erotic love and a life soon wasted by tedious labor is so affecting. THANK YOU for scrolling the lyrics (never quite got some of the words before–”rood”?) and setting the song to these beautiful and evocative images.
yes I think …
yes I think steeleye has always been good at cool transitions and cool sounds while still keeping many of the traditional elements
Yes thats probably …
Yes thats probably Ian, his looks is quite special so its not so easy to mistake him.
I believe that is …
I believe that is Ian Anderson at 3:42 with Maddy … this must have been around the time of Now We Are Six .. which Ian produced. I love this music!
I love when this …
I love when this song breaks into the violins … and bass … really cool electrified!
indeed, there are …
indeed, there are more, and I’d like to do more, but the picture collecting for this was pretty straight forward, not so sure how to do it for the wee wee man or ups and down for example.
One of my favorite …
One of my favorite Steeleye Span songs.
Not that there aren’t a lot of those…
…and you are …
…and you are giving me a batch of new words to look up in the dictionary
Oh yes, and the …
Oh yes, and the wonderful array of images you’ve collected for our edification and pleasure.
youre welcome, dont …
youre welcome, dont know why but no other of my vids have elicited more comments
youre welcome, some …
youre welcome, some say parcel of rouges wasnt at their peak but I love it. Few songs I’ve encountered offers such vivid history lesson with a personal angle. As I searched for fitting images I got a quick recap of the industrial revolution stuff that I remember very vaguely from way back in school. The vid was much work but also enjoying and rewarding.
Thank ye for …
Thank ye for posting.
Song splendid, arrangement stupendous, and Prior supernal as per usual. And you’ve enhanced it all by educating us as to the history embedded in the lyrics.
One of my favorite …
One of my favorite songs – thanks for posting it.
is she gone sick??
is she gone sick??
Loooooong time no …
Loooooong time no hear hear now
I believe there’s a …
I believe there’s a little general Ludd deep down in most of us, I have no problem sympathising with them. Dont think losing vinyls is the same problem as it used to be, youtube is a pretty large record collection don’t you think?
General Ludd Be …
General Ludd Be With You!
Great Video! Thank you for bringing an old man’s dream girl back for an encore. I lost this album in a fire twenty five years ago and now I hear it again. Thank you. Keep up the good work.