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BRIGHT PHOEBE Bright Phoebe was my true love's name As fair a girl as ever was seen As fair a girl as ever was seen If you'd travel the wide world over She and I, we did agree That married in shortly we would be As soon as I returned from sea We would settle that solemn bargain But before I did return from sea My lovely damsel they had slain from me The pride and glory of my heart In the cold grave lies molderin' I am forsaken, I am forlorn I wish to God I'd 'a' never been born I'd died before the billows' roar Since fortune have proved uncruel I will go down to some silent place Where no other man shall behold my face I'll spend the remainder of my days Lamenting for bright Phoebe traditional Newfoundland @parting @Canada filename[ BRTPHOEB AJS apr97 |
Bright Phoebe (DT file describes this as "traditional Newfoundland" but doesn't name a source. Kenneth Peacock noted three versions in Newfoundland, and published two tunes and one text in his book Songs of the Newfoundland Outports (1965), vol.2. The text given is very close indeed to the DT text, and may well be its ultimate source (it was also included in Fowke & Johnson's Folk Songs of Canada). Midi made from Peacock's version A, which came from Mrs. Charlotte Decker of Parson's Pond, Newfoundland, in August 1959. It appears to be more complete than his version B. It's a Dorian tune, and Peacock noted it without key-signature Roud Folk Song Index no. 1989.) |
