The Bird in the Bush is a folk album by A. L. Lloyd

A. L. Lloyd

Albert Lancaster Lloyd , usually known as A. L. Lloyd or Bert Lloyd, was an English folk singer and collector of folk songs, and as such was a key figure in the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s....

, Anne Briggs

Anne Briggs

Anne Briggs is an English folk singer. Although she traveled widely in the 1960s and early 1970s, appearing at folk clubs and venues in England and Ireland, she never aspired to commercial success or to achieve widespread public acknowledgment of her music...

 and Frankie Armstrong

Frankie Armstrong

Frankie Armstrong is a singer and voice teacher.She has worked as a singer in the folk scene and the women's movement and as a trainer in social and youth work...

, released by Topic Records

Topic Records

Topic Records is a British folk music label, which played a major role in the second British folk revival. It began as an offshoot of the Workers' Music Association in 1939, making it the oldest independent record label in the world.-History:...

 in 1966. The album is a collection of traditional erotic British folk songs, although the album's content is largely in the form of euphemism and does not contain explicit references. The album was re-released in 1996 by Topic on CD with 5 additional tracks taken from other Topic folk albums of the same period.

Track listing

All songs are traditional.

1. "The Two Magicians"
2. "The Old Man From Over the Sea"
3. "The Wanton Seed"
4. "Gathering Rushes in the Month of May"
5. "The Bonny Black Hare"
6. "The Whirly Whorl"
7. "Pretty Polly"
8. "The Old Bachelor"
9. "The Stonecutter Boy"
10. "The Mower"
11. "The Bird in the Bush"
12. "The Pegging Awl"
13. "Martinmas Time"
14. "The Widow of Westmoreland's Daughter"

Personnel

• A. L. Lloyd
  A. L. Lloyd
  Albert Lancaster Lloyd , usually known as A. L. Lloyd or Bert Lloyd, was an English folk singer and collector of folk songs, and as such was a key figure in the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s....
  
   - Vocals (Songs 1,3,5,7,8,10,12,14)
• Frankie Armstrong
  Frankie Armstrong
  Frankie Armstrong is a singer and voice teacher.She has worked as a singer in the folk scene and the women's movement and as a trainer in social and youth work...
  
   - Vocals (Songs 2,11)
• Anne Briggs
  Anne Briggs
  Anne Briggs is an English folk singer. Although she traveled widely in the 1960s and early 1970s, appearing at folk clubs and venues in England and Ireland, she never aspired to commercial success or to achieve widespread public acknowledgment of her music...
  
   - Vocals (Songs 4,6,9,13)
• Dave Swarbrick
  Dave Swarbrick
  Dave Swarbrick is an English folk musician and singer-songwriter. He has been described by Ashley Hutchings as 'the most influential [British] fiddle player bar none' and his style has been copied or developed by almost every British, and many World folk violin players that have followed him...
  
   - Violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
   (Songs 1,5,8,14)
• Alf Edwards - Concertina
  Concertina
  A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It has a bellows and buttons typically on both ends of it. When pressed, the buttons travel in the same direction as the bellows, unlike accordion buttons which travel perpendicularly to it...
  
  (Songs 8,12,14)