Info:Lover's Lament for her Sailor/My Love Is Gone

Subject: Lyr Req: Folk Song Title
From: wilbyhillbilly
Date: 30 Apr 21 - 10:34 AM

Help! I need help from one of you highly intelligent folkies out there please. I am making a video of Beth for a local Folk Festival appearance, she is not reachable at the moment and I have a deadline to meet, part of the verse is,

oh, oh, oh, my love is gone,
he's the one I adore,
he is gone and i'll never not see him no more.

She jumps off a cliff to join him at the end.

Hope it rings a bell for someone, thanks in advance

John

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folk Song Title
From: r.padgett
Date: 30 Apr 21 - 10:40 AM

correct title is The Drowned Sailor often misnamed as Constant Lovers which is a different song!

Ray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folk Song Title
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 30 Apr 21 - 10:44 AM

Ah, my love's Dead. Very old song. has antecedents in the 17th century. Laws K17, Roud 466. Master Title 'The Lover's Lament for her Sailor'. Most oral versions derive from Sam Cowell's burlesque version c1850. the 17th century version is called 'Captain Digby's Farewell'.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folk Song Title
From: wilbyhillbilly
Date: 30 Apr 21 - 11:01 AM

Wow! Thanks you two, what a quick response, fantastic. I can now go ahead.

Subject: RE: Info: Folk Song Title _ Drowned Sailor
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Apr 21 - 01:48 PM

Doesn't Dave Webber call it "Constant Lovers"? Dave Webber is WRONG?

Subject: RE: Info: Folk Song Title _ Drowned Sailor
From: RTim
Date: 30 Apr 21 - 02:17 PM

I call it "My Love is Gone" - as do the Copper Family and this was my source...

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Info: Folk Song Title _ Drowned Sailor
From: GerryM
Date: 01 May 21 - 12:59 AM

All the back-and-forth about songs & names reminds me of this scene from Alice in Wonderland:

‘The name of the song is called “HADDOCKS’ EYES.”’

‘Oh, that’s the name of the song, is it?’ Alice said, trying to feel interested.

‘No, you don’t understand,’ the Knight said, looking a little vexed. ‘That’s what the name is CALLED. The name really IS “THE AGED AGED MAN.”’

‘Then I ought to have said “That’s what the SONG is called”?’ Alice corrected herself.

‘No, you oughtn’t: that’s quite another thing! The SONG is called “WAYS AND MEANS”: but that’s only what it’s CALLED, you know!’

‘Well, what IS the song, then?’ said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.

‘I was coming to that,’ the Knight said. ‘The song really IS “A-SITTING ON A GATE”: and the tune’s my own invention.’

Subject: RE: Info: Folk Song Title - Drowned Sailor
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 01 May 21 - 07:50 AM

One reason why Master Titles and Roud/Laws/Child numbers are useful.

Subject: RE: Info: Folk Song Title - Drowned Sailor
From: Reinhard
Date: 08 Nov 21 - 08:46 PM

Stow Brow a.k.a. The Drowned Sailor (Roud 185) is quite another song than is discussed here.

Subject: RE: Info:Lover's Lament for her Sailor/My Love Is Gone
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 09 Nov 21 - 06:19 PM

This link gives full Lyrics ,information and a recording from Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman:http://folksongandmusichall.com/index.php/o-my-love-is-gone/

Subject: RE: Info:Lover's Lament for her Sailor/My Love Is Gone
From: GUEST,Grishka
Date: 09 Nov 21 - 06:50 PM

Plenty of Mudcat threads about this song, best found by the, ehem, monicker "Constant Lovers". For example, I remember contributing to one of them with a lot of work in order to prove that a song need not remain "unaccompanied" forever. Also in a related thread about another song.

Well, that was in 2012, we are older now.