Tune Req: Recording of 'The Boyne Water'?

Subject: Tune Req: Recording of 'The Boyne Water'?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 May 12 - 05:07 PM

Has anyone ever recorded a sung version of this song? I know that there is a version by I believe Sam Carson?,that is available on youtube but are there any other recordings?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Recording of 'The Boyne Water'?
From: GUEST,John Moulden
Date: 21 May 12 - 12:27 PM

There are at several from America but not issued commercially - one recorded by Art Rosenbaum from Maude Thacker in 1980 "King William and Duke Shambo" (Folk Visions & Voices p.64) another in Brewster Songs & Ballads of Indiana. Korson in Pennsylvania Songs & legends reproduces one from Samuel Bayard's collection, the Moores Ballads & Folksongs of the South West has another. From Ireland the only recording I can find - probably long deleted - in Sam Patterson on a cassette, Outlet CDULP10 "Songs of the Ulster Protestant".

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Recording of 'The Boyne Water'?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 May 12 - 12:34 PM

http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/PGa015.html

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Recording of 'The Boyne Water'?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 21 May 12 - 03:31 PM

That was the tune used for "Parcel of Rogues" - which seems to date from fairly close to 1707, in some version (I don't know of one earlier than Burns's rewrite). So I'd always assumed there was some verbal similarity. But I see none at all between PoR and any of the versions of "The Boyne Water" referenced here.