Tune Req: Sally Wheatley

Subject: Tune Req: Sally Wheatley
From: GUEST,Nickb
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 09:55 AM

Heard it once and enjoyed it but I can't remember it well enough to sit down and figure out. The words are in the database but anyone help with tune/chords?

Thanks

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sally Wheatley
From: GUEST,compliments of the Great Tune Search
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 10:09 AM

X:1
T:SALLY WHEATLEY
Q:1/4=70
I:abc2nwc
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:G
G/2A/2|c3/2B/2 AG D2-DG/2A/2|c3/2B/2 AG D2-DD/2D/2|
w:Noo Ah'm myest dis-tressed and sad_ tho' Ah once'st was blithe and glad_ and cud
E3/2F/2 GG GA B3/2c/2|BA- A2-A2GA|c3/2B/2 A3/2G/2 D2-D(G/2A/2)|
w:trip a-boot tha toon both trim and neat-ly?__ Ah was hap-py neet and morn_ But_
cB A3/2G/2 D2-DD/2D/2|E3/2G/2 G3/2A/2 Bc (d/2B3/2)|
w:aall soch joys Ah've shunned_since Ah fell sa deep in love wi' Sal_
A2G2-G2 (3(GA)B|c2B2A2-AG/2A/2|B2-BA/2G/2 D2-D2|
w:-ly Wheat_-ley._ Oh dear me, Ah_ div-ent na_ what to de_
D/2G3/2 G3/2F/2GA Bc|BA A2-A2-AG/2A/2|c/2B3/2 A3/2G/2 D2-DG/2A/2|
w:for Sal-ly's stole my heart a-way com-plete-ly,__ and Ah'll ni-ver get it back_for she
c3/2B/2 A3/2G/2 D2-DD/2D/2|E3/2F/2 G3/2A/2 B/2c3/2 dB|A2G2-G4|]
w:gans wi' Mis-ter Black_and they say he's gan ter mar-ry Sal-ly Wheat-ley._

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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sally Wheatley
From: GUEST,Nickb
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 12:37 PM

Thanks

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sally Wheatley
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 01:04 PM

The DT credits the song to Alex Glasgow, and quotes what it calls "differing opinions regarding authorship". These are not opinions but facts; the song was written by Joe Wilson of Newcastle (c.1840-1874). Glasgow, perhaps not being able to trace the tune Wilson specified for it, put a new one to it, and that is the melody generally used now.

Wilson wrote his song to a tune he called The Happy Land of Air-in. The Happy Land of Erin was a popular song of the day; broadside copies can be seen at the Bodleian. The meter is the same. It was in its turn based on an American song of the Civil War period, The Happy Land of Canaan, also well known in Britain through the broadside press and the Minstrel shows. There are broadside editions at the Bodleian and elsewhere, and sheet music of 1860 can be seen at the Levy Collection:

The Happy Land of Canaan

That is the tune which Joe Wilson intended for his song, and to which it was sung before Alex Glasgow set new music to it.