Here's my transcription from the two recordings mentioned above. There's a third version online by a Biddy Rhodes who was taught it by Ruth Tongue when she was a girl. It's used as the background to a video and is only partial, though the clearest recording: Shadowlands Project at Halsway Manor - just over halfway down the page Shadow animation test for Walford's Gibbet. I'll try and put the tune up, but it might be a few days. Mick
SEVERN NO MORE (Ruth Tongue) As I walked out by Severn side, A brown-rigged craft came up/down the tide. Chorus: Singing, "Farewell, shore It's Severn no more. No more." Singing, "Farewell, shore, It's Severn no more" Now/O Severn she's/is wide as the eye can scan And/But she wrecks them under both craft and man. There's none can ride her mighty bore Where/When she do rise with a terrible roar O Severn do shine and she lies still And all come home both safe and well Final Chorus: Singing "Welcome, shore, It's Severn no more. No more", Singing "Welcome, shore, It's Severn no more" Source: Meg Rose and Ruth Tongue There are some slight differences in wording in the two versions. Those to left of / are Meg Rose, those to the right Ruth Tongue. Ruth Tongue's own chorus is slightly different (and is as the first version I posted originally): Singing, "Farewell, shore It's Severn no more. No more. No more" and similarly for the final Welcome shore chorus
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