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Posted By: GUEST,Julia L
04-Jun-16 - 04:43 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Peggy Gordon
Subject: RE: Origins: Peggy Gordon
Just found this Maine version from Susie Carr Young from Brewer, Maine who worked with Fanny Hardy Eckstorm in the 1920's. It's in the Houghton Library among Phillips Barry's papers
Little Sparrow
I wish I was in a ship a-sailing As far from land as the eye could see A-sailing over the deepest water Where the cares of love could not trouble me
I wish I was in Castle Korma Where the marble stones are as black as ink And the pretty girls would all adore me I'll sing no more till I take some drink
I lay my head on a cask of brandy It's my fancy I do declare For when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking How shall I gain that young lady fair
No sparrow... no Peggy....no Carrickfergus....? Looking for curry perhaps (Castle Korma- *grin*)
best- Julia
PS There is a melody but I am suspicious of her transcription skills. She writes it in C, but it sings much better with the b flatted...