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Thread #39035 Message #2482676
Posted By: Phil Edwards
02-Nov-08 - 03:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Recruited Collier
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Recruited Collier
For someone who can't carry off the appropriate accent, Anderson's phonetic spellings are a bit off-putting, but if you render Jenny's Complaint in more or less Standard English, & set it to Nancy's to the Greenwood Gane, it's a fine song. Having sung it (in public) I much prefer it to TRC. One of the nice things about it is that Nancy's... rolls along, without any of those reverential pauses between lines that you tend to get with TRC.
Incidentally, I used a slightly different version of Nancy's..., which I found on Jack Campin's site here.
X:27
T:AIR XXVII Scornful Nancy.
B:Joseph Mitchell: "The Highland Fair" (1731)
Z:Jack Campin
M:C|
L:1/8
K:C
G | G3 A G2 (FE)|(FE)(DC) A3 c | G3A (GA)(GE)|(G3A) c2
(cd)|(ed)(cA) (cA)(GE)|(FE)(DC) A3 c | G3A (GA)(cE)|(G3A) c2||
(GA)|c2 e2 e2 (de)|(fe)(dc) A2(GA)| c3 d (ed)(ec)|(f3g/a/) g3
a |(ga)(gf) e2 (de)|(fe)(dc) A2 f2 |(e/f/g) G2 (GA)(GE)| G4 c2|]
(Bruce Olson's index confirms that 'Scornful Nancy' and 'Nancy's to the Greenwood Gane' are one and the same.)