The only published tune listed by Roud is in Peacock. No guarantee, of course, that the other two examples were sung to that tune, or to anything like it. Tempo given here is only a guess.


X:1
T:Young Daniel
S:Mrs Thomas Waters, Rocky Harbour, July 1959
B:Peacock, Songs of the Newfoundland Outports, 1965. III 831-2
N:PEA 144 No. 966
N:Roud 1969, Laws dG43
L:1/8
Q:1/4=120
M:3/4
K:C
"Moderately fast"
G2|A4 A2|(A2 B2) c2|G4 G2|E4 G2|
w:On Ap-ril last,_ the eight-eenth day, At-
A4 A2|(A2 B2) c2|G4 G2|E4 (CE)|
w:ten-tion give_ to what I say, A_
D4 E2|D4 C2|(E2 D2) C2|D4 E2|
w:gun was heard in sol_emn sound Like
(E2 G2) G2|(G2 A2) G2|E4 D2|C4|]
w:thun_der roar_ing through the ground.