Brian/Richie

Here are the transcriptions of Quinn and Coates. (Quinn is mine, Coates I'd already taken from bluegrassmessengers).

X:1
T:False Knight On The Road
C:Frank Quinn
L:1/8
Q:1/4=76
M:2/4
Z: MCP
K:C
D | GG GG | (ed) BA | G2 ED | (E G2)
w: What|brings you here so|late _ says the|knight on the|ro- ad
D | GG GG | (ed) dB | B2 AG | A2
w: I|go to meet my|God_ said the|child as he|stood
Bd | e2 ed | B2 GA | (BA G)E | D3
w: And he|stood and he|stood and 'twere|we- - ll he|stood
D | GG GG | (ed) BA | G2 ED | (E G2) |]
w: I|go to meet my|God_ said the|child as he|stood_ |]


X:5
T:The False Knight upon the Road
T:The Fause Knight upon the Road
C:Trad
B:Bronson
O:Sharp MSS., 3369/2466. Also in Sharp and Karpeles, 1932,
O:I, p. 3(A); and, with piano accompaniment, in Sharp, 1918,
O:p. 20. Sung by Mrs. T. G. Coates, Flag Pond, Tenn., September I, 19I6.
N:Child 5
N:1932 gives Fnatural (i.e. transposed D natural) in tne in the penultimate bar.
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:Gmix % Heptatonic ( -6 +7#)
c | d2 cc | [M:3/4] d3 c AG |
w:The knight met a child in the
G4 z |: d | G3 A/B/ A/A/G | G^F G2 cc |
w:road. O where are you go-ing to? said the knight in the
d3 c AG | F6 | G3 A/B/ AG |
w:road, (knight in the road) I'm a-*go-ing
G^F G2 cc | d3 c AG | [M:2/4] G3 c |
w:to my school, said the child as he* stood. He
[M:4/4] d2 gg f2 fd | c3/ d/ d A/G/ F4 | [M:3/4] G3 A/B/ AG |
w:stood and he stood and it's well be-cause he* stood. I'm a-*go-ing
G^F G2 cc | d3 c AG | G4 z :|
w:to my school, said the child as he* stood.


Brian - I disagree about the 1st 3 notes, but you're right about stood... , there is something similar in the shape there.


Richie -minor point - your 1932 note in the abc says F# where it should say Fnatural.

I still don't think the tunes are very similar!.

Mick