579)  CAPTAIN COULSTON   The DT text was transcribed from a record by Andy Irvine and Dick Gaughan; their principal source was Brigid Tunney, though they added additional verses from another source.  Steeleye Span also recorded an arrangement of her version (somewhat pared-down), so I've used notation in the first Steeleye Span songbook for a midi: first verse only, as they varied the tune (another Dives and Lazarus / Gilderoy variant) later on.  I don't have a recording of Brigid Tunney singing it, but would hope that this is reasonably close; it's certainly quite close to the way her son Paddy sang it.

2000)  THE LADY LEROY  This is taken from H.M. Belden's Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society, and came originally from A.F. Wade's MS collection, where no tune was given.  Variants have been found in a number of places, but there is another set from Missouri at The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection:

The Lady Leroy As sung by Mrs. Tressie Rose in Gainesville, Missouri on July 1, 1958.

This would seem to be a reasonable example to use, though as ever we cannot be sure that it it even remotely resembles the tune used by whoever Wade noted the text from. Midi borrowed, then, from Hunter, with the following modifications to accomodate the text:

Bar 2: First note (1/16th; Bb4) removed, second note (1/16, C5) doubled to 1/8.

Bar 3: Sixth note (1/8; Ab4) split into two 1/16ths.

Bar 4: Seventh note (1/8; F5) split into two 1/16ths.

2053)  LEESOME BRAND  Child #15. The DT file is the set that Gavin Greig got from Bell Robertson of Aberdeenshire in 1908, though the DT credits neither source nor collector. She actually called it Lishen Brand. She did not sing, so no tune is recorded for her set, and it appears that none has been found in tradition anywhere else.

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3012)  ROTHESAY BAY  This is frequently described as a traditional Scottish song, and may possibly have entered tradition at some point (though I rather doubt it); it is, nevertheless, a poem by Dinah Maria Craik (née Mulock, 1826-1887), a prolific English writer, born in Stoke-upon-Trent and best known for her novel John Halifax, Gentleman. This point was made in a thread of 1999 by Murray on Saltspring and Wolfgang, but whoever harvested the lyric paid no attention to that and simply described it, misleadingly, as "Scots".

The poem was set to music by Alfred Scott-Gatty, an English heraldic expert and songwriter (1847-1818; born in Ecclesfield, Yorkshire). It appears to have been recorded by Moira Anderson and Jean Redpath, among others; there is a midi listed on the web, but the site has been shut down. Given that the error messages from the former provider proliferate and give Netscape a heart attack, I should say that the site owner did well to leave them; unfortunately, this leaves us without the tune. Perhaps it will turn up again, or these clues will help someone else to find it.

Details of Mrs. Craik's work can be seen at The Victorian Women Writers Project at Indiana University.