Lyr Req: One Morning in May (Texas Gladden)

Subject: Lyr Req: Texas Gladden's 'One Morning,One Morning
From: GUEST,eliza c
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 12:56 PM

Hello, looking for this has made my eyes hurt. Does anyone know anything? It's a version of "The Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime".
x ec

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Texas Gladden's 'One Morning,One Morning
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 01:35 PM

My mother did some transcriptions of Texas Gladden material when I was quite young. As I remember that line and what went with it, it may also be a version of Streets of Laredo. MAY. I've been wrong before -- but I've also occasionally been right. Tw.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Texas Gladden's 'One Morning,One Morning
From: Lighter
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 01:51 PM

Probably not helpful - but I seem to recall it's a version of the "Young Girl Cut Down" form. Have you tried Alan Lomax's "Folksongs of North America"? (Hardly more than a wild guess.)

Apropos of nothing at all, Eliza Carthy's take on "Diego's Bold Shore" is one of the finest neo-trad performances I've ever heard. ;)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Texas Gladden's 'One Morning,One Morning
From: Lighter
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 01:59 PM

Yup. It's in Lomax, p.193, under the title "Bad Girl's Lament."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Texas Gladden's 'One Morning,One Morning
From: Maryrrf
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 02:07 PM

I think I have this one - it's the one about "my body's salivating" which refers to the effects of the mercury pills that were given at the time for syphillis. I have this one and will try to dig it out. Isn't Texas Gladden great!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Texas Gladden's 'One Morning,One Morning
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 02:51 PM

The "One morning, one morning" often is a different song- "The Nightingale," an old British folk song often collected in the Southwest.

"The Bad Girl's Lament" is in the DT and the group is discussed and linked by Malcolm Douglas in thread 22885: The Young Girl

Maryrrf, looking forward to seeing the one sung by Texas Gladden.

Subject: ADD Version: One Morning in May
From: Maryrrf
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 08:51 PM

The confusion may lie in that "One Morning, One Morning" isn't the title of the song, and doesn't occur till the last verse - at least in Texas Gladden's version.

The CD I have is called "Texas Gladden Ballad Legacy". It's put out by Rounder and has complete text to all the songs, tons of liner notes, and includes portions of Alan Lomax talking with Texas Gladden about the songs. Most of the songs are unaccompanied but on some tracks Texas is accompanied on banjo by her brother. It's a wonderful album with some real gems.

Here goes:

One Morning in May

When I was a young girl, I used to seek pleasure
When I was a young girl, I used to drink ale
Out of the alehouse and into a jailhouse
Right out of a barroom and down to my grave

Come Papa, Come Mama, and sit you down by me
Come sit you down by me and pity my case
My poor head is aching, my sad heart is breaking
My body's salivated and I'm bound to die

O send for the preacher to come and pray for me
And send for the doctor to heal up my wounds
My poor head is aching, my sad heart is breaking
My body's salivated and Hell is my doom

I want three young ladies to bear up my coffin
I want four young ladies to carry me on
And each of them carry a bunch of wild roses
To lay on my coffin as I pass along

One morning, one morning, one morning in May
I spied this young lady all wrapped in white linen
All wrapped in white linen and cold as the clay

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Texas Gladden's 'One Morning,One Morning
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 09:39 PM

The Gladden song is a remake of "Young Girl Cut Down" or "Bad Girls Lament."
The title "One Morning in May" is a confusing choice since this generally begins the well-known song about some young thing being enticed into the woods by a lad 'to hear the nightingale sing.'

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Texas Gladden's 'One Morning,One Morn
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 09:44 PM

It's already in the DT here (transcribed from Hally Wood who got it from the Texas Gladden recording). It was also transcribed from Lomax in this thread.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Texas Gladden's 'One Morning,One Morn
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 20 Sep 04 - 11:01 PM

To see a number of variants, search for DT #350

This appears at the bottom of each of the versions.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Texas Gladden's 'One Morning,One Morning
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 09:17 AM

Anybody wishing to hear a great version of this song and living in the London area should look out for any club appearances by a singer by the name of Gail Williams. I believe she often sings at the Cellar Upstairs folk club near Kings Cross.

Methinks "Guest eliza.c" might already know her.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Texas Gladden's 'One Morning,One Morning
From: GUEST,eliza c
Date: 21 Sep 04 - 04:43 PM

heyup,
Thanks all! Now to the Smithsonian to buy me a recordin of it...
xx eliza

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Texas Gladden's 'One Morning,One Morning
From: GUEST,Henryp
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 06:40 AM

I think this song is sung by Sara Grey in Martyn Wyndham-Read's ambitious project Songlinks 2. Eliza, you may have met Sara at Sidmouth this year - she was there for the project's first performance. Can anyone recall which song she sang at the concert?

"There are plans for this concert to be repeated at the National Festival (only just down the road from us at Sutton Bonington) in 1995 [? 2005 surely!], hopefully with some more of the American singers who will be appearing on the CD. The project is hugely expensive and the recording can only go ahead if it attracts enough financial support, which is through sponsorship of individual tracks." http://www.deadparrot.clara.net/news.html

I think that recording is proceeding - Sara was at Fellside to record this track in May. The release is going to be expensive too! If you'd like to to sponsor this or any other track, contact Martyn for details of the Dan Plan! http://www.martynwyndhamread.com

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Texas Gladden's 'One Morning,One Morn
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 09:55 PM

And Eliza: that recording is currently available from Rounder (not Smithsonian), who have reissued much of the Library of Congress Lomax material. (You may have figured this out already.)

I think I first heard it from Sara Grey, but got the Texas Gladden recording a couple of years ago. It's wonderful.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Texas Gladden's 'One Morning,One Morn
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 24 Sep 04 - 12:26 AM

With permission I'd like to add the following from PMs between Tannywheeler and myself:

TW:
When you referred to the transcription from Hally Wood I wanted to mention: in my original answer to this thread I mentioned "my mother" having done transcriptions (for the Lomaxes) of a lot of the Texas Gladden material. My mother was/is Hally Wood. (Death does not negate parenthood.) I can hear her voice singing that song even yet.

DD:
Oh! Yes! Thanks for the note. I kind of skimmed over your message since it didn't quite answer the question and I missed its significance. So, she worked with the recording that Lomax made and made the transcription which was in the book? When I said "transcription from Lomax" in my post, I meant a Mudcatter had transcribed from the book (Folk Songs of North America, by Alan Lomax, Doubleday & Co., 1960 -- #97 The Bad Girl, page 193).

---

And then we also have the text from Hally's singing in the DT version, as I mentioned above.

I love these amazing Mudcat connections. Thanks for your posts, Tannywheeler.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Texas Gladden's 'One Morning,One Morning
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 25 Sep 04 - 12:16 PM

Direct Hally Wood quote:
"You are entirely welcome, my dear."    Tw

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Texas Gladden's 'One Morning,One Morning
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 25 Sep 04 - 01:25 PM

My favorite of this "Bad Girl's Lament" group has become "Annie Franklin," posted in thread 22885: Annie Franklin

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: One Morning in May (Texas Gladden)
From: GUEST,Fantasma
Date: 20 May 08 - 01:17 PM

OK, I've been looking all morning for the answer to my question, and see there is already some info here.

Perhaps elizac & I are searching for the same thing, perhaps not.

A friend asked me, after Sugarland's win at the Country Music Awards the other night, if they had a recorded version of "Bad Girl's Lament" as she knew she had recently heard a female(s) recording of it.

Now, the one she is referring to is the Irish version from Canada. It is found in both Edith Fowke's "Songs of the North Woods" (or what I call the "north woods version") which was collected in Ontario, I believe, from the logging camps.

The other Irish version, as I recall, was in Helen Creighton's collection, "Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia".

We know it isn't this one (Jennifer Nettles Band's song titled "Bad Girl's Lament" which isn't the trad song):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG2StVL37oM

So far, all I have found is the wonderful Feist's version on You Tube here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hysbjX2r7GE

titled "When I Was A Young Girl".

My friend seems to think the recorded version she heard was a bit trad rock sounding, so this could be it.

There are tons of versions of "One Morning in May" at YouTube, none seems to fit the bill.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: One Morning in May (Texas Gladden)
From: ClaireBear
Date: 20 May 08 - 01:22 PM

Didn't Julie Driscoll record this, back in the day? It was an amazing recording and (along with her take on "Season of the Witch") made me a lasting fan.

C

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: One Morning in May (Texas Gladden)
From: GUEST,Fantasma
Date: 20 May 08 - 01:22 PM

Also, didn't Rosalie Sorrels once record 'Bad Girl's Lament'?

Out of curiousity, I'm wondering how many recorded versions of it there are by women?

Maybe Shirley Collins did some version back in the day?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: One Morning in May (Texas Gladden)
From: GUEST,Fantasma
Date: 20 May 08 - 01:42 PM

WOW! Check out this article! Everything you ever wanted to know about "St James Infirmary" but were afraid to ask!

http://robwalker.net/html_docs/letterthirteen.html

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: One Morning in May (Texas Gladden)
From: ClaireBear
Date: 20 May 08 - 01:42 PM

There's an audio sample of the Julie Driscoll version here:

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/298876-01.htm

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: One Morning in May (Texas Gladden)
From: GUEST,Fantasma
Date: 21 May 08 - 08:11 AM

Thanks for that link ClaireBear! Doesn't sound like what my friend was talking about, but it sure is a nice cut.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: One Morning in May (Texas Gladden)
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 21 May 08 - 09:57 AM

Jane Rothfield sings it on the Hadden Rothfield Carr album, When These Shoes Were New, a 1985 LP from a division of Shanachie. I don't know if it has been reissued on CD.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: One Morning in May (Texas Gladden)
From: GUEST,anon
Date: 24 Jun 20 - 10:45 AM

Hello from 12 years into the future! I recommend you guys check out Marlon Williams' version of this song, titled "When I was a young girl" - a truly haunting rendition!