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Vol. 1: A Sailor Went To Sea20 Favourite Nursery Rhymes and Kid's Songs
Tom He Was A Piper's SonBobby ShaftoThere Was An Old Woman Tossed Up In A BasketLavender's BlueThe House That Jack BuiltDance To Your DaddyThe FoxA Sailor Went To SeaMichael FinneganMiss Polly Had A DollyThree Little MonkeysI Love Little PussyThere Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A FlyLittle Miss MuffetThis Old ManOld King ColeThe Riddle SongTwinkle Twinkle Little StarAiken DrumGolden Slumbers
Super cool and a really fun album! - ★★★★★
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Really bought this for one song but ended up buying 6 album downloads as they are so well done, sound like folk songs. I like listening so car rides won't be so hard! - ★★★★★
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The tracks here are delivered with an enthusiasm that only a professional misanthrope could fail to smile at, and the saccharine blandness of so many other children's nursery rhyme albums is thankfully missing. - ★★★★☆
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I bought this for my grandson but it's a great hit with adults and children alike. Sadly most of these songs are not known to many young children today. Good to see them being preserved for everyone. - ★★★★★
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Bobby Shafto
All Instruments: Douglas Milne, Lead Vocals: Helen Raw
From the TwinkleTrax album "Vol. 1: A Sailor Went To Sea - 20 Favourite Nursery Rhymes and Kid's Songs"
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Lyrics of "Bobby Shafto"
Origins of "Bobby Shafto"
Bobby Shafto's gone to sea
Silver buckles on his knee
He'll come back and marry me
Bonnie Bobby Shafto
Bobby Shafto's bright and fair
Combing down his yellow hair
He's my love for ever more
Bonnie Bobby Shafto
Bobby Shafto's tall and thin
Always dressed so neat and trim
All the lassies peek at him
Bonnie Bobby Shafto
The earliest printed version of this nursery rhyme dates from 1805.
The rhyme is about Robert Shafto (c. 1730-97), an eighteenth-century British Member of Parliament (MP) for County Durham , and later the borough of Downton in Wiltshire. There is a portrait of Shafto in his home, Whitworth Hall in County Durham, in which he is represented as very young and very handsome with golden hair.
The song tells the story of how he broke the heart of Bridget Belasyse of Brancepeth Castle, County Durham, when he married Anne Duncombe of Duncombe Park in Yorkshire. Bridget Belasyse is said to have died two weeks after hearing the news.
Shafto was a celebrated courtier and a man of fashion in his day and is said to have squandered a good deal of the money that his wife brought to him.
Origins text ©2011 TwinkleTrax Children's Songs.
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