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Harry Cox

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Harry Fred Cox (27 March 1885 - 6 May 1971), was a Norfolk farmworker and one of the most important singers of traditional English music of the twentieth century, on account of his large repertoire and fine singing style. 'He is admired', writes Roy Palmer in the DNB, 'for the breadth and variety of his repertory, some 140 items ranging from rough bawdry to high balladry, but above all for his technique, based, according to the BBC producer Francis Dillon

Top songs

  1. Jack Tar on Shore
  2. The Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime
  3. Bold Fisherman
  4. Barton Waltz
  5. The Yarmouth Fishermen's Song
  6. The Yarmouth Fisherman's Song
  7. The Bonny Labouring Boy
  8. The Foggy Dew
  9. The Pretty Ploughboy
  10. The Long Peggin' Awl
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  1. Cruising Round Yarmouth
  2. The Maid of Australia
  3. What Will Become of England?
  4. Firelock Stile
  5. The Black Velvet Band
  6. The Bold Fisherman
  7. The Female Drummer
  8. The Knife in the Window
  9. The Bold Princess Royal
  10. georgie
  11. Cruising Around Yarmouth
  12. Polka
  13. The Spotted Cow
  14. Come All You Men Throughout This Nation
  15. The Harvest
  16. Singing in Public Houses
  17. My Life
  18. The Turkish Lady
  19. People What Don't Like To Hear An Old Song...
  20. Young and Growing
  21. Just As The Tide Was A - Flowing
  22. London is as Sharp as the Edge of a Knife
  23. Ignite
  24. A-Going to Widdliecombe Fair
  25. Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime,The
  26. The Barley Straw
  27. The Crocodile
  28. Two Hornpipes: Yarmouth and Meg Merilees
  29. My Grandfather and My Father
  30. Babbing for Eels
  31. Young Edmund
  32. Two Jolly Brothers
  33. Bold Archer
  34. The Farmer's Servant
  35. My Upbringing
  36. Nelson's Monument
  37. Charming and Delightful
  38. The Gypsy Laddie
  39. The Cuckold's Song - Our Goodman
  40. Blackberry Fold
  41. My Mother
  42. Betsy The Servant Maid
  43. There's Bound To Be A Row
  44. Windy Old Weather
  45. A Polka
  46. Nice & Strong
  47. In Worester City
  48. Talk and Melodeon Pieces
  49. Adieu To Old England
  50. The Crabfish
  51. Hunger and Pay
  52. On Yon Lofty Mountain
  53. I Had An Old Hoss
  54. The Fowler
  55. Up to the Present I Ain't Forgot Anything Yet
  56. My Father at Sea
  57. I Used to Go Along of Him
  58. Just as the Tide Was A-Flowing
  59. The Green Mossy Banks Of The Lee
  60. Poaching
  61. Sweet William
  62. A Schottische
  63. The Rigs Of The Times
  64. The Green Bed
  65. The Squire And The Gypsy
  66. Three Toasts
  67. She Never Had Time to Sit Down
  68. In Scarborough Fair Town
  69. The Watercress Girl
  70. Georgie (Geordie)
  71. Barton Broad Babbing Ballad
  72. A Week's Matrimony
  73. The Good Luck Ship
  74. Barton Broad Ditty
  75. A Hornpipe
  76. Learning From My Father
  77. Up to the Rigs of London Town
  78. Adieu to Old Eng-e-land, Here's Adieu
  79. Henry the Poacher
  80. Miss Doxy
  81. Colin And Phoebe
  82. The Bold Drover
  83. A Happy Family
  84. Where The Shamrocks Grow
  85. Black-Hearted Gypsies O
  86. The Grand Hotel
  87. Alone, Alone In London
  88. Old Joe, The Boat Is Going Over
  89. The Soldier and Sailor's Prayer
  90. The Bonny Bunch Of Roses O

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