Lyr Req: Oh, Why Should Not Poor Folk?

Subject: Lyr Req: Oh why should not poor folk?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 05:49 AM

The tune is almost identical to South Wind, as found in O'Niel's book of Irish tunes. It just seems as though there ought to be words!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Oh why should not poor folk?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 09 Apr 03 - 11:05 AM

From The Fiddler's Companion:

"WHY SHOULD NOT POOR FOLK? (Cad fath nach ndeinfadh na boicht?). AKA and see "Jackson's maid at the fair." Irish, Air (6/8 time). C Major. Standard. ABC. O'Sullivan (1983) points out the tune, from Bunting's
1840 collection, is really an extended version of "A ghaoith on nDeas," printed in Bunting's 1809 volume A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland (pg. 37). A version of the tune appears as "Jackson's maid at the fair" in O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes (Vol. 1, pg. 771), c. 1811.

Source for notated version: the Irish collector Edward Bunting noted the melody in 1792 from "the performance of an old man well known by the 'soubriquet' of 'Poor Folk,' who formerly perambulated the northern counties, playing on a tin fiddle." O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 50, pgs. 79-80."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Oh why should not poor folk?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 02:47 PM

So, does anyone have lyrics for Jackson's Maid at the Fair??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Oh why should not poor folk?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 04:15 PM

There are lots of tunes composed by Walker 'Piper' Jackson
(search on 'Jackson' in the Irish tune index at
www.erols.com/olsonw), but there's no indication that any had
original words. A few were later used as song tunes.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Oh why should not poor folk?
From: MMario
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 04:23 PM

any examples?