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Lyr Req: Tony Rose - Bold Archer DigiTrad: BOLD ARCHER BOLD ARCHIE BOLD DICKIE JOCK O' THE SIDE THE ESCAPE OF OLD JOHN WEBB Related threads: (origins) Lyr Req: Escape of Old John Webb/Billy Broke Locks (24) Lyr Add: Archie o Cawfield (Child 188) (2) Lyr Add: Bold Archie Drowned (1) Lyr Add: Bold Archy & Blind Wilie's Lament (1)
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Subject: Lyr Req: Tony Rose - Bold Archer From: Roberto Date: 08 Jan 05 - 01:08 PM PLease, help me correct this transcription, of Tony Rose's recording of BOLD ARCHER (F. J. Child #188). Thank you. R Bold Archer Tony Rose, On banks of green willow, Trailer 1976 As I rode out one May morning All at the dawning of the day I heard two brothers a-making moan And listen'd a while to what they did say We have a brother in prison - said they All in a prison lieth he If we had ten men like ourselves We soon should set the prisoner free Oh no, oh no - Bold Dickie he cried No, no, it never could be Forty men would be little enough And I to ride in their companie Ten for to hold the horses in And ten to guard the city about And ten to stand at the prison door And ten to let bold Archer out So they mounted their horses and so rode they And who but they so merrilie They rode till they came the riverside And there they alighted so manfullie They mounted their horses and so swam they Who but they so manfullie They swam till they came the the other side And there they alighted so drippinglie They mounted their horses and so rode they And who but they so gallantlie Rode till they came to the prison door And there they alighted so daringlie Oh, Archer, oh Archer - Bold Dickie he cried Look you not so mournfullie I 've forty men in my companie And we have come to set you free Oh no, oh no - bold Archer he cried No, oh no, it never can be I've forty weight of good Spanish iron Between me ankle and my knee But Dickie broke locks and Dickie broke keys And Dickie broke everything he could see He took the Bold Archer under his arm And carried him out so manfullie Now they mounted their horses and so rode they Who but they so gallantlie Rode till they came to the riverside And there they alighted so daringlie Oh Dickie, oh Dickie – Bold Archer he cried Take me love to me wife and me children three My horse it is lame, he cannot swim And here I fear that I must die They changed their horses and so swam they Who but they so gallantlie Swam till they came to the other side And there they alighted so shiveringlie Oh, Dickie, oh Dickie - bold Archer he cried Look you yonder there and see I think I see the old Sheriff a-coming A hundred men in his companie Dickie, oh Dickie - the Sheriff he cried You are the worst rascal ever I see Give me back the iron you stole And I will set the prisoner free I am like an owl that flies by night And I fly from tree to tree The iron will do to shoe our horses The blacksmith rides in our companie Oh Dickie, oh Dickie - the Sheriff he cried You are the worst rascal ever I see Then thank you for nothing - Bold Dickie he cried And you are a fool for following me |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tony Rose - Bold Archer From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 08 Jan 05 - 02:11 PM The usual question of sources arises. The text appears mainly to be that quoted in Journal of American Folklore VIII, 1895 (also in Linscott, Folk Songs of Old New England): Bold Dickie, "Learned [by Miss Frye] as a child from J M Watson of Clark Island, Mass[achusetts]." The usual small changes and word substitutions have been made, and the penultimate verse introduced from a fragmentary set noted by Cecil Sharp from Mrs Glover at Huish Episcopi, January 5, 1906, as The Burglar. Both texts, with their tunes, are in Bronson III, 176-177 (No. 188: Archie O Cawfield, examples 2 and 4). The "Clark Island" text appears in Child III (494) as his example F, and was sent to him in 1889 by Mr J M Watson (see above) who had learned it from his father. Watson would be responsible for the pseudo-archaic spellings, presumably, which you reproduce. The song appeared on broadsides; copies can be seen at Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads as The Bold Prisoner |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tony Rose - Bold Archer From: Roberto Date: 08 Jan 05 - 03:41 PM You are right, Malcolm, I forgot to write down what Tony Rose says on the LP sleeve. Here it is: "I've supplemented Sharp's fragment called THE BURGLAR from Mrs. Glover of Huish Episcopi, Somerset, with an American text from Massachusetts." |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tony Rose - Bold Archer From: *Laura* Date: 08 Jan 05 - 05:33 PM I had a look through the files with all Tone's songs in - that he usually used to learn the words from, but I couldn't find it anywhere. xLx |
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