Jack in the Green

But this was your, this was your world, and this is what you, how you learnt about life.

Um, and the street entertainment, you know, there was a lot of folk stuff that was still on the go, the Jack-in-the-Green and all this was sort of-

Mm

... sort of misrule quality.

There's Hanami in Japan, when the cherry blossom comes.

And sometimes these festivals cross-pollinate, like Jack in the Green here in England.

It's ancient and modern, rural and urban all at once.

And today, with a face painted green, I'm following its life cycle.

Subject to vice words [laughs] 'cause he is just the spirit of summer.

That great, great man of leaves who twirls and dances, but we'll slay him this afternoon.

Jack in the Green.

[cheering] [drum beating]