Original upload date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 18:17:43 GMT
Filmed & Directed by Simon Attwell & Daniel Hargrove
Edited by Guillaume de Villiers http://www.madamspeaker.tv/
Styling by Kim Winter
Song mixed by Duane Lundy http://duanelundy.com/
Mastered by Jus
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tin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering @mystery_room_mke
Big thanks to Sue Hoppe x
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"Pretty Polly" is a traditional folk song found in the British Isles, Canada, and the Appalachian region of North America, among other places. This is our version.
The song is a murder ballad, telling of a young woman lured into the forest where she is killed and buried in a shallow grave. Many variants of the story have the villain as a ship's carpenter who promises to marry Polly but murders her when she becomes pregnant. When he goes back to sea, either he is haunted by her ghost, confesses to the murder, goes mad and dies, or the ship will not sail, he denies the murder and is ripped to pieces by her ghost.
