Two giants of English folk music, opening a treasure chest of beautiful music to many (then still young people) by their individual interpretation and their many respective groups. Thank you, gentlemen .... And Swarb is very missed!

I saw them in Hamburg the year after this. They got slightly out of sync on one of the songs, so before starting the next song, Carthy says to Swarbrick: 'if you finish before me, go and get the drinks in'.

So sadly missed is Swarb..huge loss to the folk world

English folk revival at its very best.

Unbelievable rhythms, melodies, lyrics, harmonies, everything. And live as well.

Accidentally coming across Martin Carthy and English folk music is one of the best mistakes of my life, the music is so beatuiful

We are all old now but, damn, when we were young, we were great.

Always loved hearing Swarb humming along. Still heartbroken that we've lost our greatest fiddler. RIP Swarb.

I have no words.

RIP Swarb.

It's amazing watching Swarb here, he never seems to look at what he's doing, he's just watching Martin Carthy. Two amazing musicians !

Saw them live at the Mucky Duck Houston in summer. Humid as hell. Carthy couldn't keep his guitar in tune, Great show. Memories are all we have.

I've only been into folk for 4 years. But I know that acoustic folk doesn't get any better than stuff like this.

Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!! Fabulous to see early Carthy-Swarb footage, especially of this quality. -- Simply love it!

I taped this off the telly when it was originally shown on Calendar but the tape got chewed up shortly after so it's great to see it again after almost 20 years. Cheers.

My favorite song in 1/1 time

Jeez! These two fellows are marvellous. They've had a profound influence on the world of folk music. I've been following their exploits since the mid-sixties. They are superb. I can't find words to explain the joy their music has given me over the years. Best wishes to everyone from Jarrahnut in wonderful Western Australia.

Brilliant, superb, amazing musicians!!! Such a welcome change from mainstream pop & pretentious 'classical' when I first found proper, accomplished folk music & song in the early '70s. RIP, Swarb.

These were so perfect together

Musical giants.

I had a CD of this, and I often find that studio perfection is hard to match in a live setting. This blows the studio version out of the water, because the perfection is still there, along with an immediacy that can only occur during an unstoppable period of time! Nobody knows how to get so much happening on those inner fingerpicked accompaniments as Martin Carthy does, and he does it on song after song.

Saw this magnificent pair two nights ago in Lewes they have still got the magic

I so love this song. With two of the best British folk artists ever...

Hi there Jarrahnut. Fellow Sandgroper here. Just stumbled across this wonderful performance. Wow! Dave Swarbrick's touch and phrasing are just so PERFECT. Completely love this performance from these guys. Superb!

A fine song, well done. But really, what an unreasonable woman!

They played at the state museum in Columbia,SC in the early 90's. I happened to know the guys in charge Of the production and had the good fortune of meeting them both after the show. Very nice and interesting to talk to. I highly recommend "Life and Limb" by this duo.

I saw the two of them do this song at Kings Place the other evening. They haven't changed! Love the dark guitar accompaniment - only Martin Carthy!

Now this IS music! Superb. I saw Dave & Martin last night. Amazing.

pure class

I once saw Carthy introduce it onstage, and he said then that it is in one.

One of my favorite songs

Saw Martin reading his paper in Robin Hoods Bay this morning, Folk royalty. 🇬🇧❤️

Just stumbled across this, and it's got to be the most awesome thing I've seen in ages. It just doesn't get any better than this. Two virtuosi, playing together as though they were one person. FANTASTIC!

Matchless musical grace.

What energy and musicianship. Beautiful!! Sovay - such a great song. Have been a big fan of these two since 1970. Both legends. Had the pleasure of seeing Martin Carthy perform in a small venue in Davis, California in 1978 or 1979. Was able to shake his hand. I requested he sing "Skewball" - which he did!! One of the high points of my life!

Good on ya, bmartinmcd18. Thanks for putting me on to this. A year or two ago, I was sitting in the market square at Fremantle, listening to a free music performance, when I became aware of a guy standing right beside me. I looked up, and, would you believe it ... it was Swarbrick himself! "Hello, you're Dave Swarbrick, aren't you - I'm coming to see you at Fairbridge". 'Oh, thank you' he replied ... and moved on ... and I did go and see him at Fairbridge

I've heard Martin perform this with daughter, Eliza who became an awesome ballad singer and violinist. She was a kid in 1989.

I love these guys! Their "Byker Hill" and "Oh Dear Oh" are priceless.

Lucky me, I saw them both live in the day.

OMG - Calendar on YTV - by-gum that teks me back! And what a great piece to have on an early evening magazine programme, DS and MC must have been playing in Leeds.

Top top top song and awesome performance.

Incredible.

Two incomparable performers. I was lucky to see them live twice - forty years apart!

Folk metal. Dark.

privilidged to have met boh of these true English folk music legends. And if Swarbrick isn't the world's greatest ever fiddler, them I'm not he best Irish Baladeer ever

Brilliance

Outstanding version! I had a version of Bert Jansch doing this on a cassette I recorded from a BBC Radio concert in 1979 or 1980, but a few months later the tape got chewed. Dagnabbit Muskey !!

Isla St Clair done a great version on the kids show 'The Song & Story'.Thats when I first heard this great song.

Magic!

This great. I love seeing the video of a song I have enjoyed for years! Love seeing Mr. Carthy as a younger man, also. He is a true treasure! Thank you for posting this.

Yorkshire Tv seemed to love Swarb and his assorted friends. the musicianship from these guys is second to none. i read that because Ian Campbell refused to include this song in his repertoire, this was the reason for Swarb leaving.

Great!!!

I heard them performing it furst in 1996. I sing this song--one of my youtube videos

I have him on video in which he describes his guitar tuning & comments that others got there 400 years before him. He certainly has a style & drive all of his own.

Brill!

I am one of the few Sovay's I have ever come across! I was named after this song which my father and mother loved. My father was a guitarist and wrote his own pieces and loved these two musicians. This is a tune he wrote for me kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q9KhjMp7rJO4Zps.html

A Balkan tune brought to UK by Bert Lloyd, some say.

Yes, I know: but that's what he said. I'd be intrigued to see what a score looks like, though - one beat a bar. I think of it as kind of 3/4 - ish - with variations - many variations. Just when you think you've got it another variation comes along and throws you out.

Nice Guitar indeed.

It's what ever rhythm/meter that fits the words! Listen to Waterman's Hornpipe by Brass Monkey (another project which Martin Carthy is part of). Those are strange rhythms!

How can anyone prefer the crap that passes for popular music these days?

@irtishriver And your point is??? There are no harmonica players in this clip, so Im puzzled?!

I saw them both but never together.

Sovay - and so good. Saw them years ago at places like the Red Lion Folk Club in Birmingham. Tweeted; twitter.com/NigelMusicNZ

Sounds very Breton, is he Cornish? (Same thing)

If he'd have given her that ring, she'd have killed that bum

@:M MaxwellW: it´s in g minor, but any minor key would do, to suit the singer...

Yes I've seen it, I prefere it with Simon Nicol.

Pentangle...hmm, no, sorry, I don't rate their version at all. Carthy hits that twist in the tail to perfection; and the performance is crisp, sharp, full of rhythmic interest. The Pentangle version slows down as they get to "I'd have pulled the trigger...", which is just soggy. Sorry.

'in one' doesn't really help xD one what?