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Thread #42222   Message #623301
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
08-Jan-02 - 08:49 AM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT
493)   BRIGHT SHINING MORNING   The DT text is described as "First heard at Folk Club in 1983 from Richard Adrianowicz of Out of the Rain"; the Mudcat's Radriano, in fact.   The song is English, and I couldn't find a set that quite matched his; versions still current in tradition, such as that in the repertoire of the Holme Valley Beagles, (Bright Rosy Morning) differ quite considerably in text, though the chorus remains pretty much the same.  The closest I could get is The Sweet Rosy Morning, noted by Lucy Broadwood (source and date unknown) and published in Sussex Songs (H.F. Birch Reynardson, 1889).  Having settled on that, I checked the Forum and found this thread:  Bright Shining Morning,  in which Richard wondered where he had learned it, the answer being from Swan Arcade (though perhaps via Lou Killen) who indeed used the Broadwood set, but changed the title for some reason and added a generic final verse.  Midi made, therefore, from the notation in that book, as reprinted in Sweet Sussex: Folk Songs from the Broadwood Collections (Lewis Jones, 1995).