Lyr Req: Chris Coe's Edward (Child #13)

Subject: Lyr Add: EDWARD (from Chris Coe - Child #13)
From: Roberto
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 04:47 AM

Edward as sung by Chris Coe. The version is from George Dunn's. I'm not sure of the last verse: Never till our sun sets on yon high tree
And that will never never be. Can somebody check and help me? Thanks. Roberto

Edward
Chris Coe, A Wiser Fool, Backshift Music, BASH CD51, 2001 (George Dunn's version)

What did you kill your own dear brother for?
My boy, come tell it unto me
For killing three little dicky birds
That flew from tree to tree

What will you do with your houses and your land?
My boy, come tell it unto me
I'll leave them all to my sister dear
For they're no more use to me

What will you leave your dear little brother now?
My boy, come tell it unto me
I'll leave him a rope to hang himself
From yonder high high tree

What will you do when your father comes home?
My boy, come tell it unto me
I'll place my foot on board a ship
And sail to Amerikee

When shall I see your dear dear face again?
My boy, come tell it unto me
Never till our sun sets on yon high tree
And that will never never be

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chris Coe's Edward (Child #13)
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 12:22 PM

Apart from hearing "the" not "our" sun, I think the text is exactly as written. The track I find most interesting on A Wiser Fool is Harvest Song on which Chris multitracks her voice in an adaptation of the story performance.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chris Coe's Edward (Child #13)
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 01:03 PM

George sang

Never till the sun sets on yonder high tree.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chris Coe's Edward (Child #13)
From: Roberto
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 01:18 PM

Thank you very much, Countess Richard. Yes, Harvest song is interesting, but I always feel more attracted by the traditional songs, and A Wiser Fool has many beautiful examples of them. I've read of a new CD, an EP, with Chris Coe singing a bit of Lowlands, and I'd like to hear that. In Rod Stradling's A Singer's Songbook, Chris Coe contributed a version of Silkie of Sule Skerry, that I wish she would record. Roberto

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chris Coe's Edward (Child #13)
From: Roberto
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 01:21 PM

Thanks to Malcolm Douglas too, while I was posting my thanks to Countess Richard, his contribution was coming. R