Origins: Come Love Come

Subject: Origins: Come Love Come
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Apr 22 - 07:25 PM

More to come https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=9064

How does this song relate to the Rhiannon Giddens song?

https://genius.com/Rhiannon-giddens-come-love-come-lyrics

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COME MY LOVE COME
(Nancy Till)

Down in d' canebrake
Close by the mill
There lives a colored girl
Her name is Nancy Gill.
I told her I loved her
I loved her very long
I'm gonna serenade her
And this'll be my song:

Cho: Come my love come
My boat lies low
She lies high and dry
On the O-hi-o,
Come my love come
Won't you come along with me?
And I'll take you down to Tennessee

Down in d' canebrake
Some happy day
You'll hear the wedding bells
A ringin' might gay
There's gonna be a cabin
And in a trundle bed
There'll be a pickaninny
And all because I said:
Chorus:

Down in d' canebrake
That's where I'll stay
'Long side my Nancy Gill
Till we are laid away
And when I get to heaven
And Peter lets us in
I'll start my wings a flappin'
And sing to her again:
Chorus:

Collected from the songs of Charles Edward Prewett, British Columbia
Light Horse, minstrel shows, Vernon B.C,. Canada (ca. 1915). A version
with similar first verse and chorus is in the Levy Sheet Music Collection
under the title Nancy Till.

Anne and Frank Warner, collected a fragment of this song from
Eleazar Tillett of Wanchese, NC (Outer Banks) in 1951 and it was
recorded by Jeff Warner and Jeff Davis as Come Love Come on the
album Wilder Joy (Flying Fish 1986), a compilation of two songs
Nancy Till and Dan Emmett's (Mt. Vernon, OH) "Boatsman Dance"
of the 1840s

Frank Brown of Duke Univ. also collected a version of this song in 1926
from Charles Tillett, Eleazar Tillett's husband. [Brown, Frank C. Folk
Songs from North Carolina. Durham: Duke University Press, 1952.
(Vol. III of the Seven vol. Frank C. Brown Collection of North
Carolina Folklore, p. 491

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Subject: RE: Origins: Come Love Come
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Apr 22 - 10:43 PM

Thread #135457   Message #3866296
Posted By: Joe Offer
15-Jul-17 - 05:21 PM
Thread Name: Rhiannon Giddens/Carolina Chocolate Drops
Subject: ADD: Come Love Come (Rhiannon Giddens)

You'll find this song in the TED talk I linked to above.

COME, LOVE, COME
(Rhiannon Giddens)

Come, love, come, the road lies low
The way is long and hard I know
Come, love, come, the road lies free
I'll wait for you in Tennessee

When I was four, my loving mam
Was cornered by the boss's man
She turned her head, and got struck down
They buried her in the cold, cold ground

Come, love, come, the road lies low
The way is long and hard I know
Come, love, come, the road lies free
I'll wait for you in Tennessee

When I was twelwe, my father dear
Was strong of arm and free of fear
Until the day he raised his hand
Then he was sold to Alabam'

Come, love, come, the road lies low
The way is long and hard I know
Come, love, come, the road lies free
I'll wait for you in Tennessee

When I was sixteen, found my bloom
And found my man, we jumped the broom
We pledged each other the rest of our lives
And on Saturday nights we were man and wife

Come, love, come, the road lies low
The way is long and hard I know
Come, love, come, the road lies free
I'll wait for you in Tennessee

When I was eighteen, bugles called
And boys in blue came o'er the wall
I took my chance, and followed free
They led the way to Tennessee

Come, love, come, the road lies low
The way is long and hard I know
Come, love, come, the road lies free
I'll wait for you in Tennessee

So here I sit, in a tiny shack
With thirteen others at my back
I've sent you word, so all I can do
Is wait, and wait, and wait... for you

Come, love, come, the road lies low
The way is long and hard I know
Come, love, come, the road lies free
I'll wait for you in Tennessee

I'll wait for you
I'll wait for you
I'll wait for you
I'll wait for you


from the album Freedom Highway (2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-DTNHh-iA0