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THREE SISTERS Three sisters went to gather flow'rs, Three sisters went to gather flow'rs, Three sisters went to gather flow'rs, Down by the bonnie banks o' Airdrie, O. ________________________________________________________ A. Reid, Rymour Club Misc. II (1910), 78, with tune. Sung by little girls at Kingarth, Bute. This is the opening of the ballad "Babylon, or The Bonnie Ba nks o' Fordie" (Child 14); on which see also Bronson, I.248; this tune, p. 251, is connected to the "Hind Horn" tradition (see ibid., 254 ff.). Opies Singing G ame (1985),263, with tune (a variant of the Bute), from the Gallowgate in Glasg ow, which accompanied a dramatic version of the ballad. The Opies compare Herd' s incipit (Herd MS. I.38): There wond three ladies in a bower,/Annet and Margret and Marjorie,/ And they have gone out to pu' a flower,/ And the dew it lyes on the wood, gay ladie. Close is a Vermont version in Flanders & Olney, Ballads Migrant in New E ngland (1953), 61-3, beginning "There were three sisters picking flowers/ High in the lea and the lonely O." filename[ SISTERS3 MS APR99 |
Three Sisters (This fragment of Babylon is given in Bronson (Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, vol. I) as number#14, example 6; Doon by the Bonnie Banks o' Airdrie, O. Midi from the notation in that book. ) |
