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The Ant and the Grasshopper

[Leon Rosselson]

This is one of Aesop's fables from about 500 B.C. Leon Rosselson set it to his own words and tune in the early 1970s and sang it with Roy Bailey on their 1975 album That's Not the Way It's Got To Be; with Leon and Martin Carthy playing guitar. This recording was reissued on Leon Rosselson's CD Perspectives and on the 4CD Topic anthology The Acoustic Folk Box.

Roy Bailey and Martin Carthy sang this song in 1975 at the 4. Folk-Festival auf der Lenzburg. Martin Carthy also recorded it for his 1988 album Right of Passage; this track was re-released in 1993 on Rigs of the Time: The Best of Martin Carthy and in 2001 on the anthology The Carthy Chronicles. He also sang it live in studio in July 2006 for the DVD Guitar Maestros.

John Meed wrote his own lyrics of this fable and recorded them in 2006 for his second CD, Powder of the Stars.

Lyrics

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