Name: New Gate Stone
Duration: P00H04M38S
Description: Adapted from 'New Gate Stone' (Roud Number: V1924, printed between 1840 and 1866). The legend says that prisoners who write their name on the walls of New Gate Prison are hanged the next day. John Smith and James Pratt (of ’45 George Street') and Daniel Goode (of 'Verses on Daniel Good' from 'The Crowing’, 2018) were incarcerated at New Gate. Taken from the Bodleian Broadside Ballad Archive.

New Gate Stone

from Neighbours and Sisters by Bird in the Belly

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Adapted from 'New Gate Stone' (Roud Number: V1924, printed between 1840 and 1866). The legend says that prisoners who write their name on the walls of New Gate Prison are hanged the next day. John Smith and James Pratt (of ’45 George Street') and Daniel Goode (of 'Verses on Daniel Good' from 'The Crowing’, 2018) were incarcerated at New Gate. Taken from the Bodleian Broadside Ballad Archive.

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When Claude Duval was in New Gate thrown
He carved his name on the dungeon stone
Quoth a dubsman who stared on the wall
You’ve carved your epitaph Claude Duval

Duval was hanged and the next who came
On the self-same stone inscribed his name
“Aha” quothed the dubsman, devilish glee
“Tom Waters hangs on the triple tree”

Your name
Written on the New Gate Stone
Your name
Written on the New Gate stone
No one on earth cares for your soul
Your name
The stone lets the reaper know

Lay now in the dungeon, Captain Bew
Rumbold and Whitney, the jolly crew
All carved their names on the stone, and all
Share the same brave fate of Claude Deval

Twenty highway men, blithe and bold
Rattled their chains in the dungeon old
All those fierce men turned to bone
Who wrote their names on the New Gate stone

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from Neighbours and Sisters, released October 18, 2019

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Bird in the Belly Brighton, UK

Bird in the Belly is a Brighton-based Folk group consisting of folk-duo Hickory Signals (Laura Ward and Adam Ronchetti), alt- folk singer-songwriter Ben Webb (Jinnwoo, Green Ribbons), and multi-instrumentalist and producer Tom Pryor. Together they collect little known and forgotten lyrics, poems and stories from around the UK, and set them to their own “hypnotically original compositions” (fRoots). ... more

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