Nancy Kerr & James Fagan - My Little Drummer

 


      Nancy Kerr, born 1975, is an English folk musician and songwriter, specialising in fiddle and singing. Born in London, she now lives in Sheffield. She is the daughter of a London-born singer and songwriter Sandra Kerr and Northumbrian piper Ron Elliott. She was the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards "Folk Singer of the Year". Nancy and James perform this song 'Little Drummer' at the Bath Folk Festival.


I went a'walking on a winter's morning

City rain was falling, seagulls were calling

Cold, didn't heed it; gold, I didn't need it

Came home with a baby called him little Jamie.


Soon the moon was rising, it wouldn't stop his crying

Pitter patter raining neighbours complaining

Milk wouldn't fill him, silks I couldn't give him

Just a song to jig him, just a little rhythm.


Soon the night was ringing, mockingbirds were singing

Looking glasses breaking, neighbours awakening

Bull carts are pulling, Billy goats unwilling

Mockingbirds lamenting, diamonds are glinting

Little dogs called Rover, horses falling over

Never ever stopping, such a love of shopping.


Whose beats are merry, sweeter than the cherry

Sharper than the apple, always a devil

Wings of the morning beating like a starling

Wakes us all a 'yawning, little drummer darling.


I went a'walking on a winter's morning

Came home with the summer

My little drummer.  

 

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