Win tickets to Folk by the Oak 2009

Posted by Christopher on 12 June 2009

Thanks to the lovely people at Folk by the Oak we have three pairs of tickets to this year’s festival to give away. Set in the beautiful grounds of Hatfield House, just north of London, it takes place on Sunday 26 July 2009.

Packed into one day, we have Kate Rusby, Lau, Kathryn Tickell, Jim Moray, Karine Polwart, Chris Wood and The Shee.

This time, the question is...
Inspired by the name of the festival, what’s your favourite plant-related lyric?

Post your answer in the comments below and three winners out the hat will each get a pair of tickets. Lines close at midnight on 22 June 2009. Only open to UK addresses, sorry.

"And we’ll all go together, to pluck wild mountain thyme.
All around the blooming heather. Will ye go, Lassie go?"
- Kate Rusby, Blooming Heather

Comments

The flowers in the valley all bloomed today as one
And the people of the parish woke to find
That summer was out walking like he’s never been away
And all the world was in a joyful mind

-Jon Boden, Under their Breath

Owen
Bright young user

Oh the Prickle Eye Bush
That pricks my heart for sore
And if ever I get out of this Prickle Eye Bush
Then I never will get in it any more

Bellowhead

Lizzie
Bright young user

Caught between the air and the windless deep
you float like a lily flower
and you look just like you fell to earth to sleep
and you’re waiting for your waking hour

David Finn
Bright young user

Seed, bud, flower, fruit
they’re never gonna grow without their roots
branch, stem , shoots - they need roots.

Show of Hands

Pat Finn
Bright young user

For shelter and shade has the oak tree grown
the ship the cradle the hearth and home
arms so strong they hold the sky
stood so long that the heart can’t die

The Oak.
Show of Hands.

Tiger
Bright young user

A Country round my shoulders
It’s a flag raised on a gallows tree
I won’t let it get me down

Kris Drever, John McCusker and Ruddy Woomble
The Poorest Company

Kat Duhig
Bright young user

In the hearts of the children
A pure love still grows
Like a bright star in heaven
That lights our way home
Like the flower that shattered the stone

John Denver
The flower that shattered the stone

Tigress
Bright young user

Won’t you buy my sweet blooming lavender
There are 16 blue branches a 1p all in full bloom
You buy them once
You buy them twice
They makes your clothes all smell nice.

Lavender
Lisa Knapp

Pat Finn
Bright young user

You’ll remember me when the west wind blows
Among the fields of barley.........

David Finn
Bright young user

There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of the people ran together

There were roses
Cara Dillon

Pat Finn
Bright young user

Said he, ’My pretty maid, what brings you here this way,
Oh, have you come to rob my flowers so gay?’
She says, ’No thief I am, but I am in search of some young man,
Who promised that he’d meet me here tonight.’

Martin Carthy/Trad, The Bloody Gardener

Old Tom
Bright young user

They both went out together in the Monday mist,
She never saw it coming, waiting at his wrist,
He struck her swiftly and she fell right down,
Flowers grew around her a body never found.

Whenever you`re walking out in the snow,
Think of poor Josie all on her own,
Wherever those flowers stand out unknown,
Youll be steppin` on her gravestone

Jan
Bright young user

As I passed by a willow tree, willow tree
That willow leaf blew down on me
I picked it up, it would not break
I passed my love, he would not speak

-Eliza Carthy

Nellie
Bright young user

Entries and now closed and the winners have been emailed. Thanks to all who entered!

Christopher
Bright young webmaster
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