Song of the Week – The Keeper
I surprised a few people last weekend by showing up at an event in the Midrealm. (I’m from Trimaris.) I took some friends from the area to their first event as an introduction and they enjoyed it even though it was smaller than everyone hoped. Also sprained my ankle rather severly but it’s healing up pretty well. Next weekend is Trimarian Crown here then off to Meridies for Castle Wars.
This weeks song is a Traditional work also known as “The Hunter.” I’ve been able to find very little else about it except that it seems to have been first recorded by The Weavers. The idea behind the song is the King’s gamekeeper fetches the deer back to the preserve to protect them from poachers. In my case, this is another song I learned from that book of campfire songs which “Old King from the Northern Sea” came from. However, my last verse is different from every other version I’ve found and I have no idea where I got it. It has a response part on the chorus and I altered the speed on the recorder so it gives a little different tone. I sometimes get creeped out by people singing both parts to a song. =)
The Keeper by Glen E Hammer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
I guess I’ll be here for a while, I just noticed as I was uploading that I am using less than 1% of the space available on the site. =)
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