10 Dec 97 - 09:06 PM (#17366) Subject: lyrics:Farewell He/She? From: Lorraine I'm looking for the lyrics to "Farewell She"--Checked mudcat and found a mix of "All Around My Hat" and "Farewell He" and the mention that it was a mix of the two traditional songs- but no "Farewell He". It begins "Fare thee well cold winter and fare thee well cold frost- Nothing have I gained but my own true love I've lost." I know Archie Fisher does a version of it-"Farewell She" but can't find the album. Please help.--Thanks Lorraine |
11 Dec 97 - 08:44 AM (#17389) Subject: ADD: Farewell She From: Wolfgang Hell Perhaps, but I'm not sure, this is what you are looking for, Lorraine: I found two quite similar songs Farewell He and Farewell She . Wolfgang Gloranthan songs: Farewell sheTake half a pound of reason and a quarter pound of sense,A small sprig of thyme and so much of prudence; Put then all together, love, and you will plainly see, She's a false deluding lover, let her go, farewell she. Now fare thee well cold winter and fare thee well cold frost, Last night I met my true love in yonder shady grove, Take half a pound of reason and a quarter pound of sense, Source: Jane's Glorantha page Last Updated: 20 September 1996 Taken directly from the traditional folk song: no changes needed. No particular Gloranthan links, just a lovely tune. On the other hand... it couldn't be about marriage to Inora, could it? And what strange powers do those herbs have? |
11 Dec 97 - 05:28 PM (#17417) Subject: RE: lyrics:Farewell He/She? From: Lorraine Yes yes yes Thanks Wolfgang you're great! Lorraine |
11 Dec 97 - 06:31 PM (#17422) Subject: RE: lyrics:Farewell He/She? From: Bruce O. Farewell He!, commencing "Fare thee well cold winter, and fare thee well cold frost" is, with music, in Frank Purlsow's 'The Constant Lovers', 1972. This has five verses. A song "Let him Gang", of 3 verses in David Herd's 'Scots Songs', II, p. 180, 1776 is related. James Reeves, 'The Everlasting Circle', 1960, gave two short traditional texts, "Farewell He", #40, without music. Other versions in Kidson's 'English Peasant Songs', 1929; Baring Gould's 'Garland'; 'Dorset Book of Folk Songs'. A good text without tune is in Gardiner and Chickering's 'Ballads and Songs of Southern Michigan', p. 130, 1939 (reprinted 1967). See the Traditional Ballad Index on the internet for further American versions. |
13 Dec 97 - 05:29 PM (#17494) Subject: RE: lyrics:Farewell He/She? From: dick greenhaus It's also in the database. As Farewell He. |
31 Jan 05 - 04:29 PM (#1394705) Subject: Lyr Add: FARE THEE WELL, COLD WINTER (Watersons) From: Q (Frank Staplin) FARE THEE WELL, COLD WINTER [Watersons (Farewell He)] Fare thee well, cold winter And fare thee well, cold frost; Nothing have I gained by thee But a false young girl at last. But if she's got another one And they both can't agree, She's welcome to stay with him And think no more of me. She wrote me a letter To say that she was sad; I quickly wrote the answer back To say that I were glad. She may keep her paper And I will keep my time, For what I'd have a true young girl I'd search the world around. One day that I was walking All through the shady grove, 'Twas there I met me own true love, She handed me a rose. Thinking I should keep it To never pass her by, For what I'd have a true young girl I'd lay me down and die. False deceitful young girls Are easy to be found, For what I'd have a true young girl I'd search this world around. And if she's got another one And they can't both agree, She's welcome to stay with him And think no more of me. I'll be all smiles tonight, boys, I'll be all smiles tonight. If me heart should break tomorrow I'll be all smiles tonight. Comparison is made with old songs in the post by Bruce O, above. The convergence with "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" thread 5951, is obvious: All Smiles Fare Thee Well, Cold Winter, Watersons: Farewell He/She / Fare Thee Well, Cold Winter / All Smiles Tonight |
31 Jan 05 - 07:29 PM (#1394975) Subject: RE: lyrics:Farewell He/She? From: nutty This copy of the song is from a Bodleian Broadside dated around 1820. I think it makes more sense than all the versions posted so far Farewell He |
31 Jan 05 - 08:00 PM (#1395024) Subject: RE: lyrics:Farewell He/She? From: Q (Frank Staplin) I agree. The Watersons version is especially bad. The last verse is the only useful part, because it makes a connection with the juvenile "All Smiles..." |
31 Jan 05 - 08:24 PM (#1395065) Subject: RE: lyrics:Farewell He/She? From: Pat Cooksey Finbar and Eddie Furey did the best version of this I heard, John Peel, RIP, plugged these guys on every programm, Her Father didn't like me Anyway. with Finbar on pipes and Eddie singing, was disregarded in Nottingham Folk club. I was there with them on this night. These guys went on to be one of the most famous bands in Ireland. |
01 Feb 05 - 03:29 AM (#1395342) Subject: RE: lyrics:Farewell He/She? (Adieu to Dark Weather) From: Joe Offer There's a fairly extensive entry at the Traditional Ballad Index: Farewell HeDESCRIPTION: The singer bids "Fare thee well, cold winter, and fare thee well cold frost. Nothing have I gained, but a lover I have lost...." After seeing him with another girl, she swears off of him, "He's no lad for windy weather; let him go then; farewell he"AUTHOR: unknown EARLIEST DATE: 1906 (Belden-BalladsSongsCollectedByMissourFolkloreSociety) KEYWORDS: courting farewell abandonment FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond,South)) US(Ap,MA,So) Ireland REFERENCES (16 citations): Reeves-TheEverlastingCircle 40, "Farewell He" (2 texts) Purslow-TheConstantLovers, p. 32, "Farewell He" (1 composite text, 1 tune) Palmer-EnglishCountrySongbook, #80, "Fare Thee Well, Cold Winter" (1 text, 1 tune) Brocklebank/Kindersley-DorsetBookOfFolkSongs, p. 16, "Farewell He" (1 text, 1 tune) Belden-BalladsSongsCollectedByMissourFolkloreSociety, pp. 491-492, "Adieu to Cold Weather" (1 text plus mention of 2 more) Cazden/Haufrecht/Studer-FolkSongsOfTheCatskills 41, "My Love Is Like a Dewdrop" (1 text, 1 tune) Randolph 751, "Adieu to Dark Weather" (6 texts plus an excerpt, 5 tunes, all more or less related to this piece, though some are rather mixed; some of the texts reverse the male and female roles and some have a chorus) Randolph/Cohen-OzarkFolksongs-Abridged, pp. 491-493, "Adieu to Dark Weather" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 751A) Gardner/Chickering-BalladsAndSongsOfSouthernMichigan 42, "Farewell He" (1 text); 43, "My Love Is on the Ocean" (1 text) Combs/Wilgus-FolkSongsOfTheSouthernUnitedStates 179, pp. 146-147, "To Cheer the Heart" (1 text) Hubbard-BalladsAndSongsFromUtah, #58, "They Say He Courts Another" (1 short text, too brief to really classify, but some of the words go here) Carey-MarylandFolkLegendsAndFolkSongs, p. 98, "My Love Is on the Ocean" (1 text) Henry/Huntingdon/Herrmann-SamHenrysSongsOfThePeople H504, p. 347, "Farewell He" (1 text, 1 tune); compare also H241, p. 346, "The Blackbird and Thrush" (1 text, 1 tune) Graham-Joe-Holmes-SongsMusicTraditionsOfAnUlsterman 53, "My Love Is on the Ocean" (1 text, 1 tune) Fowke-TraditionalSingersAndSongsFromOntario 44, "I Once Loved a Lass" (1 text, 1 tune, from LaRena (Mrs. Gordon) Clark, which begins with verses probably from "The False Bride (The Week Before Easter; I Once Loved a Lass," continues with stanzas from "Green Grows the Laurel (Green Grow the Lilacs)," then has a "My love is like a dewdrop" stanza often found in "Farewell He," and includes several other lyrics that might have floated in) DT, FAREWELH* (RONDHAT5* -- a mixed version also incorporating "All Around My Hat") Roud #803 plus 3729, 1034 CROSS-REFERENCES: cf. "Dark and Dreary Weather" (stanza form, floating lyrics) cf. "I've Two or Three Strings To My Bow" (subject) cf. "Love Me or No" (subject) cf. "The Blackbird and Thrush" (floating lyrics) cf. "Wounded Spirit" (subject) cf. "Parting Words" (subject) cf. "There Comes a Fellow with a Derby Hat" (subject) cf. "Oh, Where Is My Sweetheart?" (subject) cf. "Like an Owl in the Desert" (subject) cf. "I'll Cheer Up My Heart" (subject) cf. "The Days Are Awa That I Hae Seen" (subject) cf. "It is Not the Cold Wind" (theme) cf. "My Heart Is As Licht As a Feather" (theme) cf. "The Bonnie Boy I Loved" (theme) cf. "Sweethearts I've Got Plenty" (theme) cf. "Now My Love's Forsaken Me" (theme) cf. "Adieu, False Heart" (theme) ALTERNATE TITLES: Fare Thee Well Cold Winter NOTES [236 words]: Cohen seems to think that the Ozark versions of this piece, known from Belden-BalladsSongsCollectedByMissourFolkloreSociety and Randolph, are a separate song, and it is possible that he's right and that it simply swallowed elements of "Farewell He." But since the swallowing was nearly complete, it seems better to lump them. In this, unusually, I agree with Roud. The situation is similar with Gardner and Chickering: Their "My Love Is on the Ocean" has distinct first and last stanzas: My love is on the ocean, O let him sink or swim, For in how own mind he thinks he's better than I am. He think that he can slide me as he slided two or three, But I'll give him back the mitten since he's gone back on me. Final verse: Go tell it to his mother; I set her heart at ease. I hear she is a lady that's very hard to please. I hear that she speaks of me that's hardly ever done. Go tell it to her, I do not want her son! It will be evident, however, that this text fits the tune of "Farewell He," and the material in between, including the chorus, is "Farewell He." Indeed, of Gardner and Chickering's texts, the one they call "Farewell He" actually looks less like the song of that title, except that it uses that key phrase! So, once again, I lump (this time disagreeing with Roud). The whole family cold probably use a thorough study, including both these songs, the Ozark versions, and "Dark and Dreary Weather." - RBW Last updated in version 5.1 File: FSC41 Go to the Ballad Search form Go to the Ballad Index Instructions The Ballad Index Copyright 2022 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle. |
01 Feb 05 - 03:08 PM (#1395944) Subject: ADD Version: Farewell She From: yrlancslad FAREWELL SHE
Fare thee well cold winter and fare thee well cold frost |
01 Feb 05 - 04:26 PM (#1396026) Subject: Lyr Add: FAREWELL HE From: Q (Frank Staplin) Nutty, that version in the Bodleian deserves posting. FAREWELL HE It's fare you well cold winter and fare you well cold frost, Nothing I've gained but my true love I've lost, I will sing and be merry while a *caution I do see, And I will rest me when I'm weary let him go farewell he. Last night he brought me a fine diamond ring, *And thought to have deprived me of a far better thing, But he was not so skillful as a lover might be, I defy the lad for ever let him go farewell he. He has another sweetheart but that is all a joke, *But if he had twenty he would not me provoke And if he likes another 'tis as they can agree, And I have the choice of twenty let him go farewell he. *As I was walking down by a shady green grove, He met me with a smiling face and gave to me the road, He thought I would *have spoke to him as I passed by, But before I would humble to him I will lay down and die. To half a pound of reason take half a grain of sense A small sprig of *time and as much prudence, And mix them up together as you may plainly see (I) defy the lad forever let him go farewell he. J. Catnach, printer, London, ca. 1813-1838, Bodleian Library, Ballads Catalogue, Harding B11(2298). * 'occasion' in a sheet printed in Liverpool, 1820-1824, Harding B 28(162): Other differences- *He thought he would deprive me; *He thought in his heart he would me provoke; *As we were walking in yonder shady grove; *speak to him; *One sprig of thyme (I like 'time'). |
02 Feb 05 - 03:22 AM (#1396620) Subject: RE: lyrics:Farewell He/She? (Adieu to Dark Weather) From: Malcolm Douglas There's a late 17th century broadside song, The young-man's lamentation, that ends Tho' I am forsaken, yet she is forsworn, Yet she is mistaken if she think that I'll mourn, I'll set as slightly by her, as e'er she did me, And for ever will deny her, let her go, farewel she. It begins Meeting's a pleasure, but parting's a grief, An Unconstant lover is worse than a Thief; A Theif he can Rob me, and take what I have, but an Unconstant Lover will bring me to the grave. Early examples of two much-travelled floaters. You can see an image at Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads, but it's largely illegible. The young-mans lamentation |
02 Feb 05 - 11:26 AM (#1396781) Subject: Lyr Add: FARE THEE WELL, COLD WINTER From: GUEST,nutty Another Bodleian version .... closer to what the Watersons sang.... Fare Thee Well Cold Winter Fare thee well cold winter, fare thee well cold frost Nothing have I gained but a false young man I've lost If he has got another and with him can agree He's welcome to go with her and shun my company He's welcome etc. The last time that I met him was in a shady road He looked at me and smiled then handed me a rose He thought that I wouls speak to him just as he passed me by But rather than I'd humble I would lay me down and die But rather etc. He wrote to me a letter to say that he was sad I wrote to him another to say that I was glad That he could keep his papers and I would spend my time For I care no more for his cold heart than he could care for mine For I care etc. And when the room he entered with a bride upon his arm I stood and gazed upon him as if to be a charm And when he smiled upon her as he used to smile on me And when his tounge will flatter he will find no change in me And when his etc. [Fare] thee well cold winter ("Oh, fare thee well cold winter ...") Johnson Ballads 2487 Printer: [s.n.] ([s.l.]) Date: [s.a.] |
27 Sep 14 - 10:16 PM (#3664181) Subject: Lyr Add: LET HIM GO, LET HIM STAY (trad Maine) From: GUEST,Julia L This Maine version seems to be a combination of Farewell He and the Scottish Sands on the Shore. Just posting FYI- no tune noted BERTHA J. AND FRANK E. KNEELAND (1914-17) Searsport, Maine LET HIM GO, LET HIM STAY 1 Adieu to ye cold winters Farewell to your frost There is nothing I have gained But my true love I have lost I can sing and be as merry As the gayest girl you see I can rest when I am weary - Let him go! Farewell he! Chorus Let him go, Let him stay Let him sink or let him swim For since he has deceived me I care no more for him There are young men a-plenty And enough as good as he And I care no more about him Than the sands of the sea 2 My true love he sent me A fine diamond ring He thinks to delude me And to his heart to win He thinks to delude me As he has two or three I defy a man to do it Let him go! Farewell he!
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28 Sep 14 - 10:51 AM (#3664244) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Farewell He/She? (Adieu to Dark Weather) From: RoyH (Burl) I have memories of this song, with the 'Half a pound of reason' verse being beautifully sung by the late, great, Cyril Tawney. How we miss him. |
28 Sep 14 - 12:01 PM (#3664257) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Farewell He/She? (Adieu to Dark Weather) From: MGM·Lion I have ref'd back to this song on the '50s popsongs from folk' thread, in re "Let him go, let him tarry", which seems to me to derive from, or be a variant of, it. ≈M≈ |
27 Nov 22 - 01:25 AM (#4158849) Subject: ADD Version: Farewell He (from Jean Redpath)) From: Joe Offer Jean Redpath has an interesting recording of this song on her Folk-Legacy album, Frae My Ain Countrie, FSS-49 (1973) FAREWELL HE Again, it was Archie Fisher who introduced me to this delightful piece of refined nose-thumbing. The Dorset Book of Folksongs names Mrs. Russell of Upwey as the source singer. In this country there is a Missouri representative with rather more familiar words: If he's gone, let him go, Let him sink or let him swim. As he does not care for me, Why should I care for him? I hope he may have good fortune, And myself but better grace, For I can get another, Far better, in his place. (Randolph's Ozark Folksongs) The early feminist's answer to the legions of "died-for-love" maidens! FAREWELLL HE Fare thee well cold winter, And fare thee well cold frost. There is nothing I have gained, But a lover I have lost. I will sing and I'll be merry When fortune I do see; And I'll rest me when I'm weary Let him go then - farewell he. Last night I saw my true love All down in yonder grove. I gave to him a smile; Not a word came from my love. Well, if he likes another And together they agree, I can find another lover - Let him go then - farewell he. Take half-a-pound of reason, Half-an-ounce of common sense, A sprig of thyme in season, A little sage prudence. Then mix them well together And I think you'll plainly see He's no lad for windy weather - Let him go then - farewell he. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUzlUvfXj3M |
27 Nov 22 - 03:41 PM (#4158949) Subject: RE: Origins: Farewell He/She? (Adieu to Dark Weather) From: The Sandman very good singing from Jean Redpath, what a shame the version from Cyril Tawney is not available |