New edition revised, with new notes and commentaries, by Malcolm Douglas and Steve Gardham, with a broadside bibliography by David Atkinson and biographical essays by Frank Purslow and Derek Schofield. Foreword by Vic Gammon.

Softback, xxiii, 197 pp. £16.50. Published by The English Folk Dance and Song Society, 2007.

First published in 1965, Marrow Bones drew on the extensive and largely unpublished folk song collections made by Henry and Robert Hammond and Dr George Gardiner between 1904 and 1909, chiefly in Dorset and Hampshire, which are held at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at Cecil Sharp House in London. It was an enormous influence on the burgeoning folk song revival and was followed by three more volumes of selections from the manuscripts. Long out of print, it is much sought after. This revised and corrected edition includes extensive new background notes and commentary..

Here are songs of comedy and tragedy, of love fulfilled and love denied, of war and peace, of land and sea, of the marvellous and the mundane. Songs both great and small that our ancestors took to their hearts and made part of their lives, and which might very easily have been lost forever. They are presented here for new generations of singers and musicians. Some are very old, others less so. The world that made them is gone, but they speak to the human condition today just as they did a century and more ago.

'This is a most welcome reprint.' - Martin Carthy Available from good bookshops and direct from The English Folk Dance & Song Society Cecil Sharp House 2 Regents Park Road London NW1 7AY Telephone: 020 7485 2206 Email: info@efdss.org Website: http://www.efdss.org/   £16.50 plus £2.00 p&p ISBN 978-0-85418-202-2
More information: EFDSS mailorder Update: Cumulative errata and corrigenda, together with supplementary material for which there was not space in the book, will be made available online as time allows: Marrow Bones