The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #940   Message #61082
Posted By: Bruce O.
02-Mar-99 - 07:22 PM
Thread Name: Origins: A Maid in Bedlam / I Love My Love
Subject: RE: Lyrics for Maid in Bedlam
No tune in DT, but the song was to "Gramachree Molly" and this appeared soon after Ogle's "Gramachee Molly". The tune for "Gramachree Molly" was that earlier called "Will you go to Flanders", and I think it's in DT. "Maid in Bedlam" was a drastic reworking of an earlier song in which a black, George Sighous, was in Bedlam for his mad love for an English girl. It's on a single sheet song with music, c 1740, called "The Black's Lamentation", but the tune on the single sheet is nothing like "Gramachree Molly".