English Folk Song - The Derby Ram

The Derby Ram is a comical English folk song dating before the 18th century featuring a man telling his friends of a recent trip to Derby where he saw an enormous tup. Besides being comical, the exaggeration of the song has been linked to the veneration of livestock by farmers whose lives revolved around them. Many counties in the Midlands have traditions involving wearing a ram's fleece while going from door to door singing the Derby Ram song.

Recording credit: Keith Kendrick, Pete Castle, Roy Harris and Derrick Hale, Folk songs of Derby and Derbyshire

This channel is dedicated to preserving the neglected culture of English folk songs in the form of short lyrical videos. The folk songs of the English have been overlooked compared to those of the other British peoples, something that this channel hopes to fix.