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Shirley Collins

Shirley Collins
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Shirley Collins MBE (born Shirley Elizabeth Collins on 5 July 1935 in Hastings, Sussex) is an award-winning British folksinger who was a significant contributor to the English Folk Revival of the 1960s and 1970s. She often performed and recorded with her sister Dolly Collins, whose accompaniment on piano and portative organ created unique settings for her sister's plain, austere singing style. Collins's seminal recording is considered by many to be 'Anthems in Eden', released in 1969.

Top songs

  1. Hares On The Mountain
  2. Barbara Allen
  3. Sweet Greens and Blues
  4. Bonnie Boy
  5. Space Girl - Bonus Track
  6. Bad Girl
  7. All Things Are Quite Silent
  8. Nottamun Town
  9. Just As the Tide Was Flowing
  10. Sweet England
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  1. Polly Vaughan
  2. The Cherry Tree Carol
  3. Love Is Pleasin'
  4. Cambridgeshire May Carol
  5. Pretty Saro
  6. The Unquiet Grave
  7. The Cruel Mother
  8. Space Girl
  9. Wondrous Love
  10. The Foggy Dew
  11. Proud Maisrie
  12. I Drew My Ship
  13. The Tailor And The Mouse
  14. Cruel Lincoln
  15. Richie Story
  16. Dearest Dear
  17. Reynardine
  18. Death and The Lady
  19. Pretty Polly
  20. The False True Love
  21. The Banks of Green Willow
  22. The Merry Golden Tree
  23. The Bonny Labouring Boy
  24. The Irish Boy
  25. Awake Awake /The Split Ash Tree/ May Carol /Southover
  26. Scarborough Fair
  27. The Bonny Irish Boy
  28. Washed Ashore
  29. Brigg Fair
  30. Poor Murdered Woman
  31. Higher Germanie
  32. Lovely Joan
  33. Hori-Horo
  34. Turpin Hero
  35. Fare Thee Well My Dearest Dear
  36. The Cuckoo
  37. The Christmas Song
  38. The Spermwhale Fishery
  39. Died for Love
  40. Rolling in the Dew
  41. The Queen of May
  42. Over The Hills And Far Away
  43. Locked In Ice
  44. Lady Margaret And Sweet William
  45. Jane, Jane
  46. Old Johnny Buckle
  47. Greenwood Laddie
  48. George Collins
  49. A Blacksmith Courted Me
  50. Charlie
  51. Rambleaway
  52. Bobby Shaftoe
  53. Black-eyed Susan
  54. Hori Horo
  55. Sweet William
  56. Boll Weevil, Holler
  57. The Swapping Song
  58. Mowing the Barley
  59. Down in Yon Forest
  60. The Bonny Cuckoo
  61. The Silver Swan
  62. Poor Old Horse
  63. Lord Gregory
  64. The False Bride
  65. High and Away
  66. All Things Are Quite Silent - Remastered
  67. Omie Wise
  68. Whitsun Dance
  69. A Keeper Went Hunting
  70. Tell Me True
  71. Crowlink
  72. My Sailor Boy
  73. Orange In Bloom
  74. Canadee-i-o
  75. The Maydens Came
  76. Dennis O'Reilly
  77. My Bonny Miner Lad
  78. Sur le Borde de l’Eau
  79. Lost In A Wood
  80. The Barley Straw
  81. The Rich Irish Lady/Jeff Sturgeon
  82. Seven Yellow Gipsies
  83. The Sweet Primroses
  84. The Streets Of Derry
  85. Locks and Bolts
  86. The Tailor & The Mouse
  87. Murder Of Maria Marten
  88. The Captain With The Whiskers
  89. The Rigs of the Time
  90. Adieu to Old England

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