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Thread #48931   Message #814090
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
29-Oct-02 - 09:12 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing DT tunes - Part NINE
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing DT tunes - Part NINE
BURYNOTC   BURY ME NOT IN THE DEEP, DEEP SEA   "Adapted from the Peacock Collection", according to the DT file, the text of which derives from some band called Nightingale, whoever they might be. In fact, only a very few, trivial alterations have been made from the traditional version, with the exception of the omission of one verse, which belongs between verses 3 and 4 in the DT file:

"Oh bury me where my mother's prayer
And my sister's tears shall mingle there,
By my father's grave my grave shall be,
Oh bury me not in the deep deep sea."

The song was noted by Kenneth Peacock from Leonard Hulan of Jeffrey's, in July 1960. Midi made from notation in Peacock's Songs of the Newfoundland Outports, vol.I, 1965. Peacock 186 No. 1126. Roud 631, Laws B2.

CELWKMAN   CELEBRATED WORKING MAN   The DT text is taken from Gwen and Mary Polwarth's North Country Songs (1969) [not North County Songs, as the DT would have it], and was noted from Jack Elliot of Birtley, Durham. I don't have that book, but A.L. Lloyd publishes a set, also noted from Elliott (in 1963) in his Folk Song in England (1967). Midi from Lloyd's notation: the chorus is sung to the same tune as the verse. Roud 3486.