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Thread #141035   Message #4098451
Posted By: Jon Bartlett
20-Mar-21 - 12:01 AM
Thread Name: BBC TV series theme sung by Bernard Miles
Subject: RE: BBC TV seriestheme sung by Bernard Miles
Here's a US version, sung by Mrs. Carrie Ford, Black Mountain, NC, 19 Sept 1916, titled "The Shoemaker" and to be found in Vol 1 of Sharp's "English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians" at p. 75:

I am a shoemaker by my trade
I'll work in rainy weather.
Besides, two pairs I've made today
Of a side and a half of leather.

Whack de loo de dum
Wack de loo de doody
Whack de loo de dum
Kate, you are my darling.

Go hand me down my pegging awl,
I stuck it right up yonder.
Go hand me down my pegging awl,
To peg and sew my leather.

I have lost my shoemaker's wax
And where do you think I'll find it?
Oh, ain't that enough to break my heart,
O right here, Kate, I've found it.

Perhaps some tune-reader (a skill I don't possess) will tell us whether the given tune is close to Bernard's.

Jon Bartlett