I'm in the process of trying to rebuild a version of "Just as The Tide Was Flowing" from the fragment recorded by Shirley Collins in 1971 on "No Roses" and I found this thread, so I thought I'd continue it.

The following is quoted from the sleeve notes of "No Roses":

Just As The Tide Was A 'Flowin
From Aunt Grace Winhorn, Hastings

"This is a fragment from my Aunt Grace that she sang to my sister and I when we were children. To my amazement and amusement it was covered by the American group 10,000 Maniacs. I like their version - it's very much like mine, so I've got to!"

Robert Burns' "Parting Glass" is set to a variant of this tune but, as has been noted above, the structure of Shirley Collins' version of the song is more complex than the ones usually collected. The story is also apparently quite a bit different.

Does anyone have any less fragmentary versions of this variant? I like it much more than the "standard" one, especially the refrain:

"The tide goes in, the tide goes out
Twice every day returning".

Thanks
Ian