G*ddam*ed tab key! Holloway and Black, "Later English Broadside Ballads" (U of Nebraska, 1975), is a collection of ballad sheets from the Madden Collection at Cambridge. Included is this piece, which is annotated "Northern Ireland" and "a very fine ballad": A New Song, Called Harry Newell When I came to this town They call'd me Harry Newell Now they've chang'd my name And they call me the raking Jewel Fal,lal, etc [sic] They put me to bed Thinking I was weary Sleep I could get none For thinking of my deary All the night awake All the day am weary Sleep I can get none When I think of my deary Her cheeks are ruby-red Her lips are like a cherry Her eyes as black as a sloe And her hair as brown as a berry She is a lovely lass She has my heart in keeping When I go to bed She hinders me from sleeping I'll send my love a letter And I will entreat her In Belfast-town with speed I will be sure to meet her Down by the Ropery All thro' mud and mire Down by Hampster-Place There liv'd my heart's desire She was a beauty bright There's no one can excell her She was my heart's delight I know not what befell her. Reference is to volume 5, slip-sheet 1325 in the Madden Collection. No date given or estimated.
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