Chord Req: Captain Woodstock's Courtship

Subject: Chord Req: captain woodstocks courtship
From: GUEST,Jenny Mack
Date: 14 Jun 07 - 10:34 PM

I'm just a girl looking for the chords to this old song that Ian and Slvia sang. If anyone knows them, thanks, in advance. If not, thanks for taking the time to read this any rate.

Jenny Mack

Subject: RE: Chord Req: captain woodstocks courtship
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 15 Jun 07 - 02:00 AM

This is a version of Child #46 in the DT under Captain Wedderburn's Courtship.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: captain woodstocks courtship
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 15 Jun 07 - 07:06 PM

The particular version in question has been touched upon a few times here in the past, though in the arrangement recorded by 'Ian and Sylvia'.

A Folksong, Captain Woodstock

Captain Woodstock riddle

Lyric, Capt Woodstock's Courtship-Ian & Sylvi (sic)

None of these quote the full text or tune. In the last mentioned, Bruce Olson pointed out that only one traditional version calls him 'Woodstock'; Richard Hartlan's (South-East Passage, Nova Scotia), recorded by Helen Creighton and printed in Songs and Ballads of Nova Scotia (1933), and later in Bronson's Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, I, 372-3 (46.22).

A quick search shows no sign of a recording by Peter Paul and Mary, though.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: captain woodstocks courtship
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 15 Jun 07 - 07:08 PM

Where on earth did I get Peter Paul and Mary from, I wonder? Do please ignore that bit.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: captain woodstocks courtship
From: MikeofNorthumbria
Date: 16 Jun 07 - 04:59 AM

Malcom,

You commented that:

>>only one traditional version calls him 'Woodstock'; Richard Hartlan's (South-East Passage, Nova Scotia), recorded by Helen Creighton and printed in Songs and Ballads of Nova Scotia (1933)<<

Maybe this is just a coincidence, but the first singer I remember hearing perform it as "Woodstock's" courtship was also Canadian. That was Joanne Hindley-Smith, who gigged fairly regularly around the London clubs in the mid- 1960s, well before the upstate NY mud-fest made Woodstock a household name.

Wassail!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: captain woodstocks courtship
From: balladeer
Date: 17 Jun 07 - 01:34 AM

To MikeofNorthumbria:

Hi Mike: Nice to know I'm remembered 'over 'ome. I'm still gigging, but these days I mostly do it en duo with the lovely and talented Paul Mills. In fact we recorded Captain Wedderburn's Courtship on my All The Good Times solo CD in 2001. Our arrangement is the one you remember, the one I sang all over England, but it's made even more interesting by Paul's playing of many accompanying instruments. I'm listed on that album as Joanne Hindley-Smith Crabtree. These days I'm known by my married name of Crabtree, but we used the whole impossibly long version on the CD in hopes some Blighty folk might find me on the net (and they have).
This year Paul and I released our first CD as Crabtree&Mills.
If you go to www.joannecrabtree.com, you can find out all about All The Good Times and our latest, Flight of Fancy.
Warm regards, Joanne