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Thread #77411   Message #2802935
Posted By: Susan of DT
04-Jan-10 - 09:17 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Annachie Gordon (Child #239)
Subject: Lyr Add: HANNAH LE GORDON (from Bodleian)
Here is the Bodleian version:

HANNAH LE GORDON

Hannah Le Gordon is bonnie and braw
He would tempt any woman that ever he saw
He would tempt any woman, as well as he is done me
And tis all for my Hannah Le Gordon I'll die

In came her father into the room
Oh, Jenny, you're trying the tricks of a loun
Your liking a man that cares naething for thee
Yet it is all for my Hannah Le Gordon I'll die

Before I take salting [Soltan] with his guineas so red
With Hannah Le Gordon, I would beg my bread
How his houses are let and his lands they lay lea
Yet it is all for my Hannah Le Gordon I'll die

Home came her true love, home came he home
Her true love came home from the sea
Her parents kept him long at the gate
What aileth my Jenny she comes no out yet

Down came the Chambermaid wringing her hands
All for your staying so long on the sands
Your Jenny is married and now she is dead,
And it's all for staying so long on the flood

Chambermaid, chambermaid, who was so rude
As marry my Jenny and me on the flood
As marry my Jenny and me at sea
And it's all for the sake of my Jenny I'll die.

Chambermaid, chambermaid, you'll by and by
Show me to the chamber where my Jenny does lye
He has kissed her cold cheek and then her cold chin
And he's died in the room where his true Jenny lay in

Child #239
@ballad @love @death
From the Bodleian Library
versions of the song recorded by Cindy Mangsen, Joe Rae and Nic Jones
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I'll look for the booklet that goes with Joe Rae's CD and post (and enter into the DT) Joe's version when I find it.