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TRADITIONAL YORKSHIRE-DIALECT ENGLISH SONG
Lyke Wake Dirge; The Lyke-Wake Dirge
  • Sheet music for [[the Young Tradition]]'s version.

lyke wake      
[l??k]
¦ noun Brit. a night spent watching over a dead body.
Origin
ME: from lyke (from OE lic 'body': cf. lychgate) + wake1.
Lyke-Wake Dirge         
The "Lyke-Wake Dirge" is a traditional English folk song and dirge listed as number 8194 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The song tells of the soul's travel, and the hazards it faces, on its way from earth to purgatory.
Lyke Wake Walk         
  • Blue Man i' th' Moss, Wheeldale Moor
  • Boundary Stone, Urra Moor
  • Typical Lyke Wake Walk terrain, Fylingdales Moor
  • Lyke Wake Club Condolence Card
  • The radomes of [[RAF Fylingdales]] in 1986, formerly a prominent Lyke Wake Walk landmark
  • Scarth Wood Moor
  • The Face Stone, on Urra Moor
  • The Wainstones on Hasty Bank
Lyke Wake Way
The Lyke Wake Walk is a challenge walk across the highest and widest part of the North York Moors National Park in North Yorkshire, England. The route remembers the many corpses carried over the moors on old coffin routes and the ancient burial mounds encountered on the way; the name derives from a lyke, the corpse and the wake - watching over the deceased.

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Lyke-Wake Dirge

The "Lyke-Wake Dirge" is a traditional English folk song and dirge listed as number 8194 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The song tells of the soul's travel, and the hazards it faces, on its way from earth to purgatory. Though it is from the Christian era and features references to Christianity, much of the symbolism is thought to be of pre-Christian origin.