Deptford Jack in the Green May Day Celebrations Greenwich (4K)
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- Опубліковано 1 тра 2019
- Deptford Jack in the Green May Day Celebrations in Greenwich recorded on 1st May 2019, featuring Andrew Kötting, The Fowler's Troop and the Deptford Jack in the Green.
www.deptford-jack.org.uk/
Jack in the Green is a May Day Celebration that dates back to around the 17th Century. A framework is garlanded with laurel leaves and flowers then paraded through the streets accompanied by musicians, Morris Dancers and Mummers.
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Excellent film, I love the guy at the beginning, This is what we need and more of it
'It's all about fecundity...' Absolutely!! What a great event. Keep the tradition alive. Love it!
Belting Beltane to you John May the forces be with you.......Green Brightness and Blessings on thee and thy house, and long may your travelling and walks on low and high roads continue Sir.....
Thanks very much Leslie
that was great!
Happy May Day John! Thanks for this great raucous, surreal celebration from Andrew Kotting!
My pleasure Ross - hope you had a great Mayday weekend as well
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Love the old ways. Wish I had arrived in London 2 days earlier to take part. Hope you put May flowers on your doorstep.
A few familiar faces there. Great film, thanks Mr Rogers! Subscribed
Great stuff. Our town's May Day parade is on Saturday.It'll have a Jack of the Green at the front and a May Queen at the back: the wild man giving way to the civilised female.
brilliant - have a good one Arthur
Wonderful to see English tradition being kept alive in Metropolis!
I guess having 5 pints of strong beer might help. They are having fun so all good stuff.
This reminded me of dancing round the may pole at school 😊
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Wow that looks like a fun and interesting celebration. Thanks for sharing.
it was quite a spectacle Lorraine, loads of fun
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Great stuff!! Long May it continue!! x
here! here!
This is wonderful! Thanks for sharing it.
My pleasure Debra - glad you enjoyed it
There's a dancing cake.
Good old England.
She was the lady "Old OSS" similar to the Mayday Padstow Oss
Nice video of ancient English traditions and paganism. It was somewhat akin to a scene out of The Wicker Man (1973) with Edward Woodward and Britt Ekland. If at the end they'd tied someone to the green leafy thing and set fire to it, it would have been complete.
Fecundity, it's what I figured it meant. Thank You to the keepers of tradition!🗿
Jolly good show John
many thanks - it was a wonderful celebration
How do we get more young people involved to pass it on to next generation?
this is great, bloody brilliant Can I share on FB John?
Found this reference to the Fowlers Troop Jack in the Green on an interesting little London blog John. It would appear that this is a 1980s revival of a seventeenth century tradition that was stamped out during the early twentieth century by local 'worthies' anxious to curtail the riotous behaviour of the 'lower orders':
www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/04/26/see-a-green-man-parade-through-deptford-and-greenwich/
A history of the tradition and its origins can be found here on the Fowlers Troop's own website:
www.deptford-jack.org.uk/
The tune they appear to be marching to is the so called 'Rogue's March', which was played when cashiered soldiers were kicked out of the Army for stealing and otherwise misbehaving. A version of the tune, with words sung to it can be found here:
ua-cam.com/video/UaplEF4w9RY/v-deo.html
The lyrics which are being sung are transcribed below:
Fifty I got for selling me coat,
Fifty for selling me blankets,
If ever I 'list for a soldier again
The devil shall be me sergeant.
Poor old soldier, poor old soldier!
Fifty I got for selling me coat,
Fifty for selling me blankets,
If ever I 'list for a soldier again
The devil shall be me sergeant.
Fifty I got for selling me coat,
Fifty for selling me blankets,
If ever I 'list for a soldier again
The devil shall be me sergeant.
Interestingly enough, the Folk Play that is performed outside the Gipsy Moth is very similar to the Marshfield Mummers Play from Marshfield in Gloucester; which down there is performed on Boxing Day. More here:
www.marshfieldparish.org.uk/wp/marshfield-history/mummers.htm
Given your collaborator Mr. Sincliar's fixation with London rogues such as the late lamented David Litvinoff it is perhaps appropriate that Mr. Kötting should be marching along to the tune of 'The Rogue's March' on this particular occasion.
thanks Rupert - love those resonances
@@JohnRogersWalks Thanks John. One more thing I forgot to mention on the lyrics front, the reference to 'fifty I got'' refers not to 'bob' or 'nicker', but to lashes. just so you know! :) lol
First time I’ve even heard about this fantastic tradition in Deptford. I hope it’s still happening. Fully intend to be part of it next year. Been trying to find it online but every pertinent website I go to won’t connect. Does it even still happen do you know John? Thanks in advance 👍🏼
Absolutely in fact it was covered on ITV news - my blog about this from 5 years ago has been getting a lot of traffic
@@JohnRogersWalks I’m putting it in my calendar now then :) Thanks John 👍🏼
I dunno why but reminds me of The Wicker Man 😅
And I had to look up "fecundity" 😃
it's a good word eh
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