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Subject: RE: ADD: Drunken/Drucken Bella Roy From: GUEST Date: 19 May 24 - 10:57 AM Thanks, Joe. Funny that neither source gives the name of the writer of the lyrics - Robert Nunn according to Allan's Tyneside Songs. And from what I can tell it seems that the tune is lost... |
Subject: ADD Version: Drucken Bella Roy, O! From: Joe Offer Date: 18 May 24 - 10:49 PM Here's the Roud entry on the song: https://archives.vwml.org/songs/RoudBS/B181613 Here's the broadside: http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/view/f2911560-e528-4cb8-b922-19a2d967bd9a/
DRUCKEN BELLA ROY |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: Drunken/Drucken Bella Roy From: GUEST Date: 18 May 24 - 05:56 AM Ah, found it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%27s_Illustrated_Edition_of_Tyneside_Songs_and_Readings written by Robert Nunn |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: Drunken/Drucken Bella Roy From: GUEST Date: 18 May 24 - 03:22 AM Does anyone know the origins of this song? |
Subject: Lyr Add: DRUCKEN BELLA ROY, O! From: Jim Dixon Date: 25 Aug 15 - 05:03 PM A couple more verses, from Newcastle Songster, No. 3, New Series (Newcastle: W. & T. Fordyce, [1835?]), page 9: DRUCKEN BELLA ROY, O! Tune—"Duncan M'Callaghan." [Verses 1-3 and chorus are substantially the same as above] [4] Believe me, frinds, these are her words— She says, Get hyem, ye w——'s birds, Else awl bray ye as flat as t——s. Cries Drucken Bella Roy, O! [5] She says, ye have a w——e at hyem, And if ye'll not let me alyen, Maw faith, aw'll break your rumple byen, Says drucken Bella Roy, O! [Verses 6-8 are substantially the same as above.] |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunken Bella Roy From: Reinhard Date: 22 Aug 15 - 02:20 PM The Ian Campbell Folk Group sang Drunken Bella Roy on their 1965 album Coaldust Ballads. Their sleeve notes said "Words by the blind fiddler Robert Nunn (1808-1853). Tune by Ian Campbell." |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunken Bella Roy From: GUEST,Singer Dave Date: 22 Aug 15 - 01:07 PM Thanks a lot Steve, appreciate that. |
Subject: ADD: Drunken/Drucken Bella Roy From: Steve Gardham Date: 21 Aug 15 - 01:01 PM Allan's Tyneside Songs: DRUCKEN BELLA ROY When Bella's cumin hyem at neet, An' as she's walkin doon the street, The bairns cry oot, "Whe pawned the sheet? Wey, Drucken Bella Roy, O!" Ch Then styens te them gans rattlin, rattlin, They a' set off a gallopin, gallopin, Legs an airms gans wallopin, wallopin, For fear o' Bella Roy, O! Noo, when she's gannin throo the chares, The bairns begins an shoots an blairs, An cries, as she gans up the stairs, "Where's Drucken Bella Roy, O!" Noo, if she's had a sup o' beer, She sets te wark te curse an sweer, An myeks them run away for fear, Frae Drucken Bella Roy, O! Then in the hoose she sits an chats, The bairns then hits her door such bats-- She calls them a' the dorty cats, Dis Drucken Bella Roy, O! She'll myek the place like thunner ring, An down the stairs her things will fling, An cry, "Get oot, ye plagey thing," Cries Drucken Bella Roy, O! She shoots until she hurts her head, An then she's forc'd te gan te bed, Which is a piece o' straw, doon spread For Drucken Bella Roy, O! I'm pretty certain Johnny Handle recorded it but whether on a solo album or a High Level Ranters one I don't know. Googling 'Drucken Bella Roy, O' should find that out easily enough. I've heard Johnny sing it on numerous occasions. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunken Bella Roy From: Joe Offer Date: 20 Aug 15 - 05:18 PM Conrad Bladey has posted two songs that mention Bella Roy: Are either of those the song you're seeking? I don't find it in my copy of Come All Ye Bold Miners, but mine's not a first edition. Not in the Traditional Ballad Index, either. Here's a recording of the song by a group called "Tramps and Hawkers"Not clear enough for me to transcribe. I'm far better with Midwestern U.S. English... -Joe- |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drunken Bella Roy From: Steve Gardham Date: 20 Aug 15 - 04:54 PM Allan's Tyneside Songs p335 Lloyd 1st ed. Come All ye Bold Miners, p111 More Songs from the Ian Campbell Group, p10 with tune Tune is 'Duncan M'Callaghan' Written by Nunn. If it's not in the DT and no-one posts it soon I'll search it out and add it here. |
Subject: Lyr Req: Drunken Bella Roy From: GUEST,Singer Dave Date: 20 Aug 15 - 01:57 PM Looking for the lyrics re the above song, can anyone help please. |
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