Brave Wolfe

This song was a folk song about the victory on the Plains of Abraham in Canada that secured Canada for the British. It also laments and relives the death of British General Wolfe who led the British to this victory. The song on the CD was an instrumental version of this song. The lyrics of the song show a historic perspective as it seems as though the writer knew of the events, but it seems to have been written as a dramatized story. The singer offers a current perspective(Based on the lyrics of the songs by the Wastersons and Martin Carthy.)I like the combined sound of Wynton Marsalis on the trumpet and Mark O'Connor on the violin. Even without words the song tells its own story, which I like. You can tell that it is telling of a hero, and the song portrays the battle, and later, you can tell of a sad event (General Wolfe's death) as the music becomes slower and more calm. The song allows one to learn how it was that America was won. It tells the beginning of the colonization in the Americas and the battles that ensued to gain control of land in North America.