The Three Jacks: Music

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This is a tune Henk wrote in a Scottish frame of mind. The story – man surprises his faithless lass in the arms of his brother, knifes both of them to death, is hanged and has his head stuck on a spike on the city wall – contains themes picked up, variously, from a number of different ballads, broadsides, poems and stories from 17th and 18th century Scotland and England.


It segues into an Irish traditional fiddle piece: “Drowsy Maggie.”