Origins: Lord Lovel (Child #75)

Subject: RE: Origins: Lord Lovel (Child #75)
From: Suzy Sock Puppet
Date: 23 May 13 - 03:44 PM

Thanks for sorting that out Mick.

Btw, have you ever read what Niles had to say about this ballad?

The ballad of "Lord Lovel," the third in the tragic trilogy, presents the legend of a weakling member if the nobility who suffered from an Englishman's usual desire to see far places...We may safely say that Lord Lovel died a laggard's death. In my family, the ballad of "Lord Lovel" was thought to be slightly ridiculous, and was sung for humor's sake, if at all... Lord Lovel has been printed more often in American songbooks and broadsides than any other Anglo-American ballad.

Ouch!

Subject: RE: Origins: Lord Lovel (Child #75)
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 23 May 13 - 03:59 PM

Interesting, Susan. It goes to show that just because someone is a known fabricator they needn't be bereft of useful contributions. Save me checking, please, what were his first and second parts? Wonder if George Collins is in there.

I'm not so sure it was the most-printed in the songsters. I'm sure there were other more-printed ones, Barbara Allen, Cruel Ship's Carpenter. It was printed on New York broadsides c1860 but it's not in any of the American songsters I have.

Subject: RE: Origins: Lord Lovel (Child #75)
From: Suzy Sock Puppet
Date: 23 May 13 - 05:24 PM

Hope this works for you, otherwise I'll write it out.

Niles