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Lyr Add: Tommy Linn DigiTrad: BRYAN O'LYNN JOHN BOLYN TAM O THE LINN TOM BOLYN TOM BOLYNN (2) TOM BOWLING Related threads: Lyr Add: Tom Bolynn (3) (49) (origins) Lyr Req/Add: Brian O'Lynn & Tam o' the Linn (113) (origins) Origins: Brian O'Linn (6) Lyr Add: brian o Lynn was a bold Brexiteer (3) Lyr Req: Brian O'Lynne (from Dave Van Ronk) (7) Lyr Req: Brian O'Linn / Bryan O'Lynn (2) Lyr Req: Johnny Macree (5) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Tommy Linn From: GUEST,Bruce O. Date: 06 Apr 00 - 04:28 PM There are several copies on the Bodley Ballads website called "Bryan O'Lynn". |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Tommy Linn From: GUEST,Bruce O. Date: 06 Apr 00 - 01:41 PM Sorry for the typo, too. That should have been Tomlyn above, not Tomlym. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Tommy Linn From: GUEST,Bruce O. Date: 06 Apr 00 - 01:01 PM Sorry, I made a mistake. There is one verse of our song in W. Wager's play 'The Longer Thou Livest The More Fool Thou Art', which was entered in the Stationers' Register in 1569. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Tommy Linn From: GUEST,Bruce O. Date: 06 Apr 00 - 12:25 AM There are many versions of this song. Tomlym is mentioned in a medley in 'Bassus', 1530. It's under 'Songs from Bassus' in Scarce Songs 1 on my website. There are other 16th century references to songs with similar names, but what evidence is there that they refer to our song here or the ballad of Tam Lin? If you have a text of 1568, I'd certainly like to see it. [See also 'The Complaynt of Scotland', 1549.] |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Tommy Linn From: Susanne (skw) Date: 05 Apr 00 - 06:28 PM Thanks, Bruce. I have an Irish version called Brian O'Lynn. Apparently 1802 was not the earliest date for this song family: [1975:] [A] possible relative of Tam Lin's, Brian O Lynn (who may be a burlesqued son of the Irish god-mother Danu) crops up in comic songs in Ireland, Scotland and America, and the first printed version of Brian's song, in 1568, called him Tom a Lin. (Karl Dallas, notes 'The Electric Muse' 13)
[1979:] The tune is taken from Pili cat ban and the words were learned in childhood by Colm O'Lochlainn. Sam Henry [...] found some old records about a man from Cashel, Portglenore, which makes reference to a Brian O'Lynn, who on 18th April 1786 was appointed both Grand Juror and Apprizor. Under the signatures of the Grand Jurors he found the following couplet: |
Subject: Lyr Add: TOMMY LINN From: GUEST,Bruce O. Date: 05 Apr 00 - 02:58 PM Tommy Linn. Tommy Linn is a Scotchman born,
Tommy Linn has no boots to put on,
Tommy Linn has a mare of the grey,
Tommy Linn no bridle had to put on, Tommy Linn went to yonder hall,
Tommy Linn went to the church to be wed,
Tommy Linns daughter sat on the 'stair',
Tommy Linns daughter sat on the 'brig',
Tommy Linn, and his wife, and his wifes mother, --The North-Country Chorister, Durham, 1802.
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Subject: Lyr Add: TAM O' THE LIN From: Bruce O. Date: 30 Mar 99 - 03:54 PM [A supplement from C. K. Sharpe's 'A Ballad Book', 1823] TAM O' THE LIN. Tam O' Lin's daughter scho sat on the stair,
Tam o' Lin's daughter scho sat on the brig,
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Subject: Lyr Add: TOMMY LINN From: Bruce O. Date: 30 Mar 99 - 03:30 PM DT has two 'Tom Bolynn' songs from different sources, but the same singer. Here's one (no tune unfortunately) from Ritson's 'The North Country Chorister', 1802.
Tommy Linn is a Scotchman born,
Tommy Linn has no boots to put on,
Tommy Linn has a mare of the gray, Tommy Linn no bridle had to put on,
Tommy Linn went to yonder hall,
Tommy Linn went to the church to be wed,
Tommy Linns daughter sat on the 'brig,'
Tommy Linn, and his wife, and his wifes mother,
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