The Folk Orc RSB (Regular Sessions Band) continues its journey through world of traditional british folk music with another six songs. In this selection we look at begging, trouser theft, interesting ways to defrost hats and the funeral services of woodland creatures. Recorded at Coda Music Centre on 17th July 2025.

note: A.I. pretty good at Turtle Doves sitting on yonder trees. You have been warned! I have occasionally been accused of leaning...

First things first, it's traditional, it's Irish, it’s a jig, and pretty standard one at that. It’s 6/8 time.

The Arran Boat Song is an air or a slow jig with an extra skip in the rhythm which will join Highland Pibroch and Glenlivet in the Arran Boa

The song we have here though is about a man, a hero, a person whose handwriting was so off the wall it got him hanged.

The song starts with our Mr Todd, first name Johnny, leaving to go to sea having taken ‘a notion.’

Counted among the 10 most disturbing folk songs in history by the BBC in 2016, the Unquiet Grave is a fairly horrific tale.