November Recommendation

I’m an avid collector of traditional folk songs. Somehow this old sea shanty had escaped me until I heard it on the Shirley and Dolly Collins album Anthems in Eden, the first side of which is as close to perfection as anything in my collection. This Anne Briggs acapella version is just about as lovely and as far away from a call and response sea shanty as you can imagine. All I want for Christmas this year, or more realistically, before I die, is for one of my children (or both!) to sing me this or another folk song of their choosing, acapella.