"Babbacombe" Lee

Tracklist

A

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. 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. Tragedy Now Strikes Hard. The World's Imagination Is Caught By The Brutal Senseless Of The Apparent Criminal Who Slays His Kind Old Mistress.

B

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. 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.

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Sound Techniques, London

Credits

• Bass, Mandolin – Dave Pegg
• Composed By [All Compositions By] – Fairport Convention
• Design – Roberta Nicol
• Drums, Electric Piano – Dave Mattacks
• Fiddle, Mandolin – Dave Swarbrick
• Guitar, Dulcimer – Simon Nicol
• Producer – John Wood, Simon Nicol
• Written-By [The Sailor's Alphabet] – Bert Lloyd*

Notes

On the label the release is called "John Babbacombe Lee".
Released in a gatefold cover with printed inner sleeve with lyrics, an 8-page booklet.
Made in Denmark.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Rights Society: NcB

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
ILPS 9176	Fairport Convention	"Babbacombe" Lee ‎(LP, Album)	Island Records	ILPS 9176	UK	1971
ILPS 9176	Fairport Convention	"Babbacombe" Lee ‎(LP, Album, RE, Gat)	Island Records	ILPS 9176	UK	Unknown
512 755-2, IMCD 153	Fairport Convention	'Babbacombe' Lee ‎(CD, Album)	Island Records, Island Masters	512 755-2, IMCD 153	UK	1992
SIL-934,457	Fairport Convention	"Babbacombe" Lee ‎(LP, Album)	Island Records	SIL-934,457	Australia	1971
UICY-9484	Fairport Convention	"Babbacombe" Lee ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM, Ltd)	Island Records, Island Remasters	UICY-9484	Japan	2004