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Lyr Add: Martinmas Time |
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Subject: Lyr Add: MARTINMAS TIME From: Mad Maudlin Date: 13 Apr 01 - 10:50 AM Hello all, I'm looking for the title of this song I recently learned: If you know alternate versions, or the origins and approx. age of this song, please let me know! Thanks a lot, Mad Maudlin
It fell out upon one Martinmas time
Oh they rode high and they rode low,
They made her swear a solemn oath
And she's gone to the barber's shop,
And she has gone to the tailor's shop
And she has gone to the quarter-gates
The quartermaster he came down,
But she's come nearer to the gates,
The quartermaster he's come down,
She took the whistle from her side,
She took the garters from her knee,
When they found out it had been her
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Subject: RE: Help: Title of soldiers' ballad wanted From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C Date: 13 Apr 01 - 11:24 AM Well, I've heard John Roberts and Tony Barrand sing this fine song but I can't find it on any of my recordings. |
Subject: RE: Help: Title of soldiers' ballad wanted From: Morticia Date: 13 Apr 01 - 11:50 AM It's called Martinmas Time |
Subject: RE: Help: Title of soldiers' ballad wanted From: GUEST,Bruce O. Date: 13 Apr 01 - 11:56 AM There are 10 versions, one as long as 19 verses (with music) in 'The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection', I, #161, 1981.
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Subject: RE: Help: Title of soldiers' ballad wanted From: Mad Maudlin Date: 13 Apr 01 - 11:57 AM Thank you, Morticia! Roll&Go-C, if you give me your snail-mail address I can mail you a recording of it by Andy Irvine. It's really a great song! |
Subject: RE: Help: Title of soldiers' ballad wanted From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 13 Apr 01 - 11:59 AM Yes, but why is the day so significant as to always be given as the title? Does it make the oath more binding? Keith. |
Subject: RE: Help: Title of soldiers' ballad wanted From: dick greenhaus Date: 13 Apr 01 - 12:06 PM Ye dinna need the title. A search for "garters dragoons" (without the quotes) brings a version right up, |
Subject: RE: Help: Title of soldiers' ballad wanted From: GUEST,Bruce O. Date: 13 Apr 01 - 02:25 PM By far the most common title is from the 1st line, "It fell about the Martinmas time". Another is "The Troop o' Soldiers", but in Greig-Duncan the editors title is "The Irish Dragoons".
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Subject: RE: Help: Title of soldiers' ballad wanted From: Irish sergeant Date: 13 Apr 01 - 05:29 PM Interesting. It seems to be common for some songs to have several titles, Kindest reguards, NEil |
Subject: RE: Help: Title of soldiers' ballad wanted From: Mad Maudlin Date: 14 Apr 01 - 02:06 AM Yes, that's really funny. But maybe this is a natural thing that happens when songs are passed from person to person- the lyrics get changed,the title gets changed... Vive la difference :-)
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Subject: RE: Help: Title of soldiers' ballad wanted From: GUEST,#1 Date: 14 Apr 01 - 09:21 AM Mad Maudlin is getting dangerously close to discovering real folk songs. Carefull there. They can be addictive. |
Subject: RE: Help: Title of soldiers' ballad wanted From: Mad Maudlin Date: 14 Apr 01 - 12:14 PM Thanks for the warning, Guest#1, but I fear it is too late already. I shall not rests in my grave until I haven't found all the versions of all the folk songs that ever existed. Must...find...alternate versions for master... :-) |
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