Cogs, Wheels & Lovers

1. Gallant Frigate Amphitrite

(4.03 Traditional.)
 These lyrics and melody based on A.L.Lloyd's version of 'Rounding the Horn'

2. Locks and Bolts

(3.57 Traditional)
'Traditional Ballads Index' - The singer misses his love. Her parents, learning she loved a poor man, locked her away (in her uncle's house). The young man breaks the locks and rescues her (possibly fighting a battle along the way). The two are married

3. Creeping Jane

(4.02 Traditional)
A Percy Grainger collected Lincolnshire song, using the same tune, thought to be from the late 18th Century.  

4. Just as the Tide

(4.25 Traditional)

Maddy had sang backing vocals to this same arrangement on the Shirley Collins 'No Roses' album in 1971. Shirley in those liner notes said:  This is a fragment from my Aunt Grace (Grace Winhorn, Hastings) that she sang to my sister and me when we were children. 

5. Ranzo

(2.48 Traditional. Arrangement by Peter Knight) 
'The Wild Goose'. A Shanty that Peter stripped back the melody from and created a more gentle arrangement.

6. The Machiner's Song

(2.42 Traditional song 'The Threshing Song' as sung by Jim Cooper, using the same melody)

7. Our Captain Cried

(3.26 Traditional) 
The original home of the melody and lyrics for the chorus of 'Fighting for Strangers' , which Steeleye recorded on 'Rocket Cottage'. Note that this song is the original home of the tune, not the Hymn 'He Who Would Valiant Be'. The melody is also a variant of the tune used on 'The Blacksmith' by Steeleye on Please to see the King.

8. Two Constant Lovers

(5.50 Traditional. Introduced by Peter who tweaks the original arrangement) 

9. Madam Will You Walk

(3.36 Traditional)
Also known as The Keys of Canterbury, with slightly different tune, interestingly sung by Spriguns of Tolgus, A steeleye type band who Tim Hart managed in the mid 70's and wrote for.
I have not found this exact arrangement before so it seems Steeleye have heavily adapted the source materials  

10. The Unquiet Grave

(4.44 Traditional. Child 78)
A faithful arrangement of this popular Child ballad. 

11. Thornaby Woods

( Traditional)
A faithful arrangement of the traditional song with a slightly different refrain and of course added instrumentals.

(Hidden Track) The Silkie of Skule Skerry 

(4.36 Traditional. Child 113) A Maddy and Peter duet with improv elements.