Prior's album, Folk Songs of Old England Vol. 1 in 1968, again on Cliff Hasla's 1976 album Here's A Health to the Man and the Maid, and again in 2011 in Moore Moss Rutter's eponymous album, Moore Moss Rutter. First stanza from Moorman's 'The Dalesman's Litany': From Hull, Halifax, and Hell, good Lord deliver us (a Yorkshire Proverb.) It's hard when fowks can't find their wark Wheer they've bin bred an' born; When I were young I awlus thowt I'd bide 'mong t' roots an' corn. But I've bin forced to work i' towns, So here's my litany Frae Hull, an' Halifax, an' Hell, Gooid Lord, deliver me! Death Moorman drowned in the River Skirfare, 'while bathing with his children at Hawkswick, Upper Wharfedale' on September 8, 1919, The Leeds student newspaper The Gryphon published poems in his memory by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe and one 'W.G.' He was succeeded at Leeds in 1920 by J. R. R. Tolkien. References External links F.W. Moorman in Folk Music English book editors 1872 births 1919 deaths Academics of the University of Leeds Writers from Yorkshire Deaths by drowning