The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65094   Message #65736
Posted By: Bruce O.
24-Mar-99 - 09:43 PM
Thread Name: Origins: I Live Not Where I Love
Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Though I Live Not Where I Love'
Jean Redpath's version, 1st in DT, is not a traditional version. A note on the 2nd in DT say the original was by Martin Parker, but Peter Lowberry also wrote an early version and it's hard to say which the traditional versions are descended from. The song started out a part of a poem on Virgin Mary, by Robert Southwell, about 1596, and Robert Morley set some verses of it to music in 1600. Morley's tune is that on my website among the broadside ballad tunes.