Pentangle - Lord Franklin download song

I am in total shock!! RIP John, you will be sadly missed. :( 

Bob Dylan used this song to model his equally lovely, Bob Dylan's Dream. Peter, Paul & Mary recorded Bob Dylan's Dream as well and it's extraordinary. They never did a poor job on a song.

"Ten thousand pounds would I freely give To say on Earth my Franklin do live" "Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that" currencies change, but Dylan's "Bob Dylan's dream" maintains the same deep nostalgic feeling... both songs are strongly emotional grazie, rob

Both Lord Franklin and Cruel sister are exquisitely beautiful songs. Pentangle was extremely talented and I listened to them often in college. Lord Franklin is sometimes called "Lady Franklin's Lament." It is written about a sailor dreaming of Lady Franklin lamenting  the loss of her husband. Although Renbourn does a fine job as the main singer, it is really the melodic wailing of Jacqui O'shea that raises the song to true artistry. Sinead O'conner sings my favorite version. Lady Jane Franklin loved her husband deeply and funded 7 expeditions to find him. It is really a song of lost love. The discovery of one of Franklin's ships yesterday brings this all back to memory.

Franklin's ship The Erebus was found in shallow waters last year.

I had this on cassette in the ‘80’s. A fellow musician gifted it to me. It’s always haunted me...still does. I love songs that give you the gift of empathy. Thank you for the upload.

Hauntingly beautiful, as it was the first time I heard it...way long ago. I still have my original LPs of Cruel Sister and Basket of Light.

It was homeward bound one night on the deep Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep I dreamed a dream and I thought it true Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew With one hundred seamen he sailed away To the frozen ocean in the month of May To seek a passage around the pole Where we poor seamen do sometimes go Through cruel hardships they mainly strove Their ship on mountains of ice was drove Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe Was the only one that ever came through In Baffin's Bay where the whale fish blow The fate of Franklin no man may know The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell Lord Franklin along with his sailors do dwell And now my burden it gives me pain For my long lost Franklin I'd cross the main Ten thousand pounds I would freely give To say on earth that my Franklin do live

Pentangle It was homeward bound one night on the deep Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep I dreamed a dream and I thought it true Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew With one hundred seamen he sailed away To the frozen ocean in the month of May To seek a passage around the pole Where we poor seamen do sometimes go Through cruel hardships they mainly strove Their ship on mountains of ice was drove Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe Was the only one that ever came through In Baffin's Bay where the whale fish blow The fate of Franklin no man may know The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell Lord Franklin along with his sailors do dwell And now my burden it gives me pain For my long lost Franklin I'd cross the main Ten thousand pounds I would freely give To say on earth that my Franklin do live Traducir al español

Cruel Sister was one of the first albums I ever bought. It is long lost, but I have never forgotten the haunting beauty of this ballad. And now with the discovery of one of Franklin's ships, it comes back again. What a magnificent, enduring piece!

Thank you,I've been looking for this for ages.

RIP John Renbourne! You were one of the greats 

Oh how I love this song; so very much.  The beautiful haunting melody and Jacqui's wonderful sweet voice.

A wintry love, lost...

Bless this place O Christ we pray and open here a door that no one can shut and grant that soon there will be one Church and one fold and one Shepherd.

Thank you for posting this. Still sends a shiver down my spine, especially with today's news that they have found HMS Terror.