Young Tradition were an English folk group of the 1960s, formed in 1965 by by Peter Bellamy, Royston Wood and Heather Wood (no relation to one another). They recorded three albums of mainly traditional British folk music, sung in arrangements for their three unaccompanied voices.

In the late 1960s, London became the center of the English folk music revival and The Young Tradition moved there, sharing a house with John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and Anne Briggs (can you imagine!)

This was a prolific and romantic (in the Dickensian sense) time for the creation of musical legends and genres, both from the folk scene in Greenwich Village and it's mirror across the pond, London. In her Sixties memoir 'Promise Of A Dream', the feminist and historian Sheila Rowbotham mentions meeting them (p.119): "... The Young Tradition lived in extreme poverty on a peculiar diet of cornflakes and treacle, with beds divided by hanging bedspreads. Into the household, the well-known singer Donovan had introduced his big influence, the by now very wheezy Derroll Adams..."

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They were a great favourite of John Peel, who promoted their material on his Top Gear and Night Ride Radio Shows, which featured British "underground" artists both famous and obscure who caught his attention at the time.

This track is from their third album Galleries, which was their final album, released in 1968 on the Vangaurd label. It included participation from folk luminaries of the time such as Dolly Collins, Dave Swarbrick, David Munrow and the The Early Music Consort and others.
This song is a traditional tune, Roud 2438, and is performed here by Royston Wood; later, beautifully covered by Peter Bellamy in tribute to his friend after his untimely death (Royston passed in 1990 in a car accident.)
From the sleeve notes: "Heather learned this from School Radio - remember Singing Together with William Appleby? Royston, as they say, got it from her."

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