Perhaps I should also post the "Broadwood" set. The tune is the best-known one, after all.


SOME RIVAL HAS STOLEN MY TRUE-LOVE AWAY

(From Mr Lough, Dunsfold, Surrey. Noted by Lucy Broadwood, 1898)

Some rival has stolen my true-love away,
So I in old England no longer can stay.
I will swim the wide ocean around my fair breast
To find out my true-love whom I love the best.

When I have found out my true love and delight
I'll welcome her kindly by day and by night,
For the bells shall be a-ringing, and the drum make a noise
To welcome my true-love with ten thousand joys.

Here's a health to all lovers that are loyal and just,
Here's confusion to the rival that lives in distrust,
For it's I'll be as constant as a true turtle-dove,
For I never will at no time prove false to my love.


Journal of the Folk Song Society, I (4) 1902, 205.
Also in Broadwood, Traditional English Songs and Carols (1908, 108-11)


X:1
T:Some Rival has Stolen my True-love Away
S:Mr Lough, Dunsfold, Surrey, 1898.
Z:Noted by Lucy Broadwood
B:Journal of the Folk Song Society, I (4) 1902, 205.
N:Roud 587
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
M:3/4
K:E
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w:Some_ ri-val has sto-len my true-love a-way, So_ I in old
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w:Eng-land no lon-ger_ can stay. I will swim the wide_ o-cean a-
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w:round_ my fair breast_ To_ find_ out my_ true-love whom_ I love the best.


Miss Broadwood points out some similarity between this tune and Love Will Find Out the Way, which takes its name from a broadside ballad of c.1630. See what you think.


X:1
T:Love Will Find Out the Way
T:Over the Mountaines
B:Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music, 1966, 472.
N:From A Musicall Banquet, 1651, Part I, No. 8, for lyra viol.
Q:1/4=100
L:1/8
M:3/4
K:F
A2 F2 c2|B2 G2 AB|c2 A2 G2|[1 F6:|
[2 F4 EF|G3 A GF|E3 C FG|A2 G3 F|
B4 AB|c3 F ED/|E2 C2 FG|A2 G3 F|F4|]