Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 17 Come sunday...Please!
From:
Malcolm Douglas
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 08:53 AM
A widespread and popular song, so there is no "full set of words" as such, though some members of this song-family are more complete than others. It still turns up in tradition. In the DT:
Rocky Mountain Kentucky, 1953; no tune.
Whaur are ye gaun, ma bonnie wee lass? Scottish version (Glasgow) and fragment used as children's song. No tunes.
Yon high high hill Scottish version (George Davidson of Torry) with tune.
A Waukrife Minnie As remade (?) by Robert Burns, apparantly from a version from one Martha Crosbie. With tune.
As I Roved Out This is the version recorded by Christy Moore with Planxty. With tune.
The Trooper and the Maid Scottish version, original source not specified. With tune.
Reference is Laws O17 and DT #334, but ignore The Rich Old Lady, which is a version of Marrowbones. Reference for Trooper and the Maid branch is Child 299
In the Forum:
sixteen come next Sunday or so Irish version as recorded by the Bothy Band and English version from Lincolnshire (1905). The latter with tune in abc format.
Lith a doodle, As I Rode Out Irish version, As I roved Out, Sarah Makem. Tune in miditext and abc.
16 come next sunday -- lyrics Short set, no source named, and Bothy Band lyric again.
There are entries at the Traditional Ballad Index:
Seventeen Come Sunday
Trooper and the Maid
They consider the two groups to be separate though intermingled; others consider them divergent forms of the same original family.
There is a version at Lesley Nelson's Folk Music of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and America
I'm Seventeen Come Sunday English version, with tune, taken from an anthology published in America; shows signs of editorial tampering. Very close to some of the versions Cecil Sharp found in Somerset around 1904. "in" in the final line is a typo for "is".
At the Bodleian Library Broadside Collection:
I'm seventeen come Sunday Printed between 1840 and 1866 by J. Harkness, Church Street, Preston.
Malcolm
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