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Thread #50807   Message #771790
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
26-Aug-02 - 01:06 PM
Thread Name: Help: Age of East Virginia TWO
Subject: RE: Help: Age of East Virginia TWO
There is a Scottish variant of "Who is at My Window Weeping?" (Silver dagger var.) called "I Will Put My Ship In Order," according to The Contemplator (Barry Taylor). Has anyone the lyrics to this?

Guest Pete Peterson, this thread became inclusive of all "related" songs in this large, overlapping group with its borrowings back and forth. Somewhere I suggested that "East Virginia (Blues)" could be independent of the rest, partly because the death scenes and murderously inclined fathers of Drowsy Sleeper and Silver Dagger are absent- absence, longing and aching hearts only. Some versions of "In Old Virginny" and "East Virginia" have verses (objections of the father, when I'm dead and in my coffin, lily-white breast, etc.) that partially bridge the gap. Only by finding where in time the tunes and lyrics were consistent can the question be resolved- not easy and probably impossible!