Lyr Req: Yorkshire Volunteers Farewell

Subject: Lyr Req: Yorkshire Volunteers Farewell
From: GUEST,Steve Hogan
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 10:40 PM

Could anyone help with the words (and even the score) for the song "The Yorkshire Volunteers Farewell to Stockton".
I've been given a recording (origin unknown) of it sung by Vin Garbutt but as usual with Vin I can only make out half the words!
The only other trace I can locate is a recording by Graeme Danby on one of the discs in the 20 CD set "The Northumbria Anthology".
Any other info about the origins of the song would also be welcome.
Thanks

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Yorkshire Volunteers Farewell
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 01:34 AM

The song appeared in Joseph Ritson's Bishopric Garland, or Durham Minstrell (1789, and various subsequent reprints), as 'A New Song, called Hark to Winchester, or, The Yorkshire Volunteer's Farewell to the Good Folks of Stockton'. The tune prescribed was 'Push about the Jorum'.

It would be tedious to type it all out, but fortunately a facsimile can be seen at The Farne Archive.

The site is designed so that it is impossible to link to materials externally; run a search there for yorkshire volunteers and you will find it.

The original tune can be found quite easily via google; I don't know if Vin Garbutt used it or something else, though.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Yorkshire Volunteers Farewell
From: GUEST,Steve Hogan
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 04:48 AM

Many thanks for that - Vin does in fact appear to use the original tune. I'll post the words once I've transcribed them.
Also, thanks for putting me on to the Farne archive - a wonderful source which I haven't previously come across.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Yorkshire Volunteers Farewell
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 05:02 AM

'Farne' was set up with very generous grant aid, and (having too much money always seems to cloud judgement) is therefore badly over-engineered and sacrifices ease of use for surface gloss. The material it contains is important; it's just a pity that access to it was so poorly thought out.