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
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