"Babbacombe" Lee by Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention

Released on - 11 - 1971

Number of tracks 5

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1

John's Reflection on His Boyhood, His Introduction to Miss Keyes and the Glen, His Restlessness, and His Struggles With His Family, Finally Successful, to Join the Navy.

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2

This Was the Happiest Period in His Life. All Locked Set Fair for a Career Until He Was Stricken With Sickness and Invalided Out of His Chosen Niche in Life. Reluctantly and Unhappily He Turned to a Number of Menial Occupations and Finally Returned to the Services of Miss Keyes.

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3

Tragedy Now Strikes Hard. The World's Imagination Is Caught by the Brutal Senseless-Ness of the Apparent Criminal Who Slays His Kind Old Mistress.

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John Was Hardly More Than a Bewildered Observer at His Own Trial, Not Being Allowed to Say More Than a Few Words. The Tides of Fate Wash Him to the Condemned Cell Where He Waits Three Sad Weeks for His Last Night on Earth.

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When It Comes, He Cannot Sleep, but When He Does, a Strange, Prophetic Dream Comes to Him, and Helps Him to Bear the Strain of His Next Day's Ordeal as Scaffold and Its Crew Try in Vain Three Times to Take His Life.

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About "Babbacombe" Lee

"Babbacombe" Lee is the seventh album by English folk rock group Fairport Convention. Released in 1971, it tells the life story of John Babbacombe Lee, a Victorian-era alleged murderer who was condemned to death but reprieved after the gallows failed on three occasions to work properly. After the commercial and chart success of its predecessor, Angel Delight, the album sold disappointingly, and although critically acclaimed, it has its place in musical history as the first "folk rock opera".

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