The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #42222   Message #623455
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
08-Jan-02 - 12:53 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes: WANTED - part EIGHT
2109)   THE LITTLE FIGHTING CHANCE  The DT text is taken from W. Roy Mackenzie's Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia (1928); though the file does not say so, the text was noted from Robert Langille of Tatamagouche.  No tune was given in the book, so we must look elsewhere.   There is a version in the Greig-Duncan collection, Box Them Off, My Jolly Tars (noted in 1905), and another, The Fourteenth of July, in John Broadwood and G.A. Dusart's Songs of the Peasantry of the Weald of Surrey and Sussex (1843); the tunes are different, but the text of the latter is closer to the Nova Scotia set, so in the absence of concrete information I've gone for that one.  Midi made from notation as reprinted in Sweet Sussex: Folk Songs from the Broadwood Collections (Lewis Jones, 1995).