The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #7307   Message #44963
Posted By: Steve Parkes
11-Nov-98 - 08:01 AM
Thread Name: HYMNS and Folk Tunes?
Subject: RE: HYMNS and Folk Tunes?
'To be a pilgrim' (Who would true valour see, let him come hither, etc.) is a variant of The Blacksmith (A blacksmith courted me, nine months and better ...), which is in the English Book of Penguin Folk Songs and was recorded by Steeleye Span when I was a little lad of twenty-odd summers. I sometimes use the tune for Blacksmith to confuse people: sing the second and third lines to the second line of the tune instead of the first and second to the first (does this make sense?); it somehow seems more angry and less spiteful that way.