In this, the second episode of the Parson and the Songmen, we join the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould as he starts the task of collecting the old folk songs of his native Devon. After early difficulties in tracking down any songs his luck changes when he encounters a local thatcher and hedger, James Parsons, who due to the sheer number of songs that he knew was called ‘The Singing Machine’.
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