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DT Study: North Country Maid DigiTrad: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME) BELL BOTTOM TROUSERS HAME, DEARIE, HAME HOME BOYS HOME HOME, BOYS, HOME (Navy Version) NORTH COUNTRY MAID (2) RASPBERRY LANE ROSEBERRY LANE ROSEMARY LANE SERVANT OF ROSEMARY LANE THE BUTTON WILLOW TREE Related threads: (origins) Origins: Rosemary Lane aka Home Dearie Home (17) (origins) Origins: Ambletown (Home Dearie Home) (23) Lyr Req: Home, Dearie, Home & The Wild Lass (14) Lyr Req: ash / oak/ the button ball tree (7) |
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Subject: DT Study: North Country Maid From: Joe Offer Date: 30 Nov 20 - 04:04 PM https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=4272 |
Subject: RE: DT Study: North Country Maid From: Susan of DT Date: 30 Nov 20 - 05:37 PM There are so many oak and ash and some other tree songs, that we gave them a DT# - DT #319 which is attached to 12 songs. Ambletown, Rosemary Lane, etc. and all their relatives. |
Subject: RE: DT Study: North Country Maid From: Joe Offer Date: 30 Nov 20 - 09:37 PM Thanks, Susan - that gives me a lot to go on for crosslinking threads and DT songs. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: DT Study: North Country Maid From: GUEST,George Henderson Date: 01 Dec 20 - 03:45 PM In North country maid I sing a verse which is not shown here: Since I came forth from the pleasant North There's nothing delightful I see doth abound. But they cannot be half as happy as we When we were a dancing of Sellinger's Round. The tune Sellingers Round was played at many hooley's, wakes and fairs in the North. |
Subject: RE: DT Study: North Country Maid From: GUEST Date: 01 Dec 20 - 03:52 PM http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/30805/xml |
Subject: RE: DT Study: North Country Maid From: GUEST Date: 01 Dec 20 - 03:54 PM Sorry. The stanza (verse in your terminology) appears in that link, George. |
Subject: RE: DT Study: North Country Maid From: Reinhard Date: 01 Dec 20 - 05:00 PM North Country Maid, ADESCRIPTION: "A north country maid to London had strayed Although with her nature it did not agree." She laments the home she has left behind, its trees, its fields, its people. She hopes soon to be able to return home AUTHOR: unknown EARLIEST DATE: 1893 (Broadwood/Maitland) LONG DESCRIPTION: A maid from northern England (Westmoreland), who has strayed to London, wishes she were home; she sings the praises of the north country and its ways; she vows that she'll not marry until she returns, preferring to wed a north country man. She hopes to return in less than a year. Chorus: "The oak and the ash and the bonny ivy tree/They flourish at home in my own country" KEYWORDS: homesickness rambling FOUND IN: Britain(England(North),Scotland(Aber)) REFERENCES (7 citations): Broadwood/Maitland, p. 18, "A North-Country Maid" (1 text, 1 tune) Stokoe/Reay, pp. 14-15, "O the Oak, and the Ash, and the Bonny Ivy Tree" (1 text, 1 tune) GreigDuncan5 1058, "My Ain Countrie" (1 text, 1 tune) Silber-FSWB, p. 62, "The Oak And The Ash" (1 text) Wells, p. 277, "The Oak and the Ash"; "Goddesses" (2 tunes, with the latter being claimed as the source for the former) DT, NCNTRYMD* NCNTRYM2* ADDITIONAL: Reginald Nettel, _Seven Centuries of Popular Song_, Phoenix House, 1956, pp. 77-78, "(no title)" (1 text) Roud #1367 NOTES [146 words]: This looks like the source for the "oak and the ash" lines that appear in the choruses of many versions of "Rosemary Lane," "Ambletown," "Bell-Bottom Trousers," and other members of that most tangled of song families, typically with no relevance to those songs' plots. If I had my guess, I'd say the recombinant chorus was grafted onto those songs' common ancestor at some point early in its evolution. - PJS For the complex relationship between this song, "Ambletown," and "Rosemary Lane" [Laws K43], see the notes to the latter song. - PJS, RBW This song does not seem to have any "plot relationship" to the other two traditional songs; the common element is simply the chorus ("Oh the oak and the ash and the bonny ivy tree They flourish at home in my own country"). The language of this piece, however, hints at literary origin; indeed, it looks like a typical pastoral. - RBW Last updated in version 2.8 File: LK43B
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