The Children’s latest YouTube videos

‘Black Mountain Home’

a song of the First World War

‘Shady Grove’

an American folk classic
with a few new verses of our own,
to add to the 300-odd already out there

Hey, YouTubers!
(are we the next generation of couch potatoes?)

The Children’s YouTube channel now has videos for 19 of our songs (including ‘Black Mountain Home’ and ‘Shady Grove’, above), plus a piece of theatre.

• Mother & Child (from Equals, with Terry Edwards on trumpet and Dunstan Clarke on derbuka).
  
• Busker Noise from Rockingham Street.
  
• A tribute to the City of Dreams, New Orleans of the Mind.
  
• Wages of Love, a new song.
  
• Ghost Dancing, from In Memory of Grace, includes clips from The Cowboy and the Indians, starring Gene Autry, as well as photographs of the ghost dance and of ghost shirts, and portraits of Red Cloud, and Wovoka, and Mountain Chief with Frances Densmore.
  
• Grow Strong was raised on the Gun Site allotment and in Dulwich Woods. Another song from In Memory of Grace.
  
• In memory of Lol Coxhill, Last Year’s Words.
  
• Stargazer Shoes, from the album Play, is illuminated with a mélange of vintage Soviet sci-fi (Mechte Navstrechu, ‘To Meet aDream’, 1963) and mature Hollywood cheddar (Project Moonbase, 1953).
  
• Also from Play is Get Shaggin’ (a popular request when we play live;-) accompanied by marvellous demonstrations of the Collegiate Shag and some breathtaking moves from the beautiful Eleanor Powell.
  
• Isaac is from In Memory of Grace, with Isaac Lee-Kronick (for whom it was written when he was a baby) on lead guitar.
  
• Before You Fall is from Come Aboard, with images by William Blake.
  
• Small Talk, illustrated by images from Manet, Millais and Samuel Palmer, is from Rockingham Street.
  
• Like Love is one of the Songs from the Red Notebook, with images by Millais and Palmer, among others.
  
• Unrequited, another of the Songs from the Red Notebook, has help from Colossus and the Amazon Queen.
  
• Democracy and Ructions, both from the album Equals, are illustrated with photos by Max Reeves.
  
• A live version of the as-yet-unrecorded south London anthem Crystal Palace, shot during a session for Ashley Cowan’s Alternative Hour on Croydon Radio. (Another song from that Croydon session can be seen on the Alternative Hour’s channel: it’s World Without Mercy, from In Memory of Grace.)
  
  

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