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Subject: When I was going o're Salisbury Plain From: Sapper_RE Date: 24 Jan 00 - 02:35 PM I know the 1st verse, can anyone help with the rest?? When I was going o're Salisbury Plain, A very fine sight I beheld, The ladies were crying and tearing their hair, The rousters had come for the Blues, The rousters had come for the Blues. Aparently dates from the Napoleonic times. Sapper |
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Subject: RE: When I was going o're Salisbury Plain From: GUEST Date: 24 Jan 00 - 02:55 PM "The rout it is come for the blues". Salisbury Plain/ Scarborough Sands |
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Subject: RE: When I was going o're Salisbury Plain From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 24 Jan 00 - 03:11 PM Indeed; The Rout of the Blues, or The Rout is Come for the Blues, etc. Robin & Barry Dransfield recorded it on their first album, 30-odd years ago...what I remember of that version is: As I was a-walking on Salisbury Plain What a dainty fine sight I did view; The lasses were crying and tearing their hair For the rout had just come for the Blues: The rout had just come for the Blues. ......... Saying, "My heart is undone, it is true; I'll......... And boldly I'll follow the Blues: And boldly I'll follow the Blues. The landlord and landlady walk hand in hand And so do they pretty girls, too; And each one took out a bottle of gin To drink a success to the Blues: To drink a success to the Blues. Our ship it is rigged and we all set sail How sweetly the French Horns(?) played too And each one let out a loud huzzah "Success to King George and his Blues! "Success to King George and his Blues!" With any luck, somebody will be along shortly to correct my lapses of memory! Malcolm |
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Subject: RE: When I was going o're Salisbury Plain From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 24 Jan 00 - 03:16 PM Oh yes, and: They're as gallant young fellows as ever you'll see Though you search bonny Britain all through; When dressed in his Majesty's suits you'll agree There are none can compare with the Blues: There are none can compare with the Blues: Malcolm |
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Subject: RE: When I was going o'er Salisbury Plain From: Stewie Date: 24 Jan 00 - 07:01 PM Malcolm, the Dransfields' first couple of verses are slightly different from what you remember: As I crossed over Salisbury Plain What a dainty fine sight I behold As lasses were crying and tearing their hair Oh the rout has just come for the Blues Oh the rout has just come for the Blues. Then each one home to their mothers do run Saying, 'Me heart is undone, it is true I'll pack up me clothes without more delay And boldly I'll march with the Blues And boldly I'll march with the Blues' The last 3 lines of the third verse are: And each one poured out a bottle of gin To drink a good health to the Blues To drink a good health to the Blues They repeat the first verse after the final 'They're as gallant' verse. Cheers, Stewie.
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Subject: RE: When I was going o're Salisbury Plain From: Abby Sale Date: 24 Jan 00 - 07:52 PM Miniscule addition - Robin gave me the following words for verse 3 in 1969. That's not necessarily what's on the record - just what he said. The landlord and landlady walks hand in hand And so do they pretty girls, too; And each one brought out a bottle of gin For to drink a good health Blues: x2 One French horn. N.B. You know that "rout" refers to get up & go ... march out. Not at all rout as in wild defeat. |
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Subject: RE: When I was going o're Salisbury Plain From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 24 Jan 00 - 08:24 PM There; didn't I say they'd be along soon? Thanks all! Malcolm |
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Subject: RE: When I was going o're Salisbury Plain From: pavane Date: 20 May 04 - 04:01 AM Does anyone know where the Dransfields obtained their version and tune? There are about a dozen versions in the Bodleian Ballad library, under the title 'Success to the Blues' They are all very similar, but noticeably different to the Dransfields song. Not one of them mentions Salisbury plain - they all have Rosemary Hill or Rosemary Lane, and none of them mention the French at all. |
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Subject: RE: When I was going o're Salisbury Plain From: pavane Date: 20 May 04 - 04:11 AM An example - which seems garbled in places, as it doesn't scan well Success to the Blues As I was going down Rosemary Lane A most beautiful sigh(t) I beheld Of the pretty girls crying & wringing their hands Saying the rout has just come for the blues Now the daughter unto her mother did say My Heart is fill'd with love for the blues (Should be Heart's filled?) I'll pack up my clothes, and make no delay And I'll travel the world with the blues The Landlord and landlady walk arm in arm And so do the youhg women too You would have laughed to see them go round To take their farewell of the Blues The're as clever young fellows as ever you see When dressed in His Majesty's clothes You may search England o'er and Scotland all through And there's none can compare with the blues Our ship is in waiting and we must away Drink success to King George and his Alies (an obvious misprint for Blues) Then give three huzzas, success to King George Success to King George and his Blues Bodleian ref : Harding B 11(3353) |
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Subject: RE: When I was going o're Salisbury Plain From: GUEST,JOHN of ELSIE`S BAND Date: 20 May 04 - 04:22 AM Our first verse:- As I was-a-walking on Scarborough sands, Some pleasures and pastimes to view, The girls they were crying and wringing their hands. Oh the rout has just come for The Blues, The Blues. The rout has just come for The Blues. |
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Subject: RE: When I was going o're Salisbury Plain From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 20 May 04 - 10:43 AM But where did you get it? The song does seem to have appeared on broadsides localised to Scarborough; Ingledew, The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire, 1860, 219, prints a text as Scarboro' Sands, with the comment "From a broadside penes me." This should not be confused with another Scarborough Sands -of which there is an example in the DT- which is unrelated. The Dransfields seem to have got their text from a set noted by Cecil Sharp from Tom Gardiner, Blackwell, Worcestershire, in September 1909, which is almost identical; but their tune wasn't very like his, nor much like the few other examples I've seen. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I Was Going o'er Salisbury Plain From: Amos Date: 20 May 04 - 01:31 PM Ref |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I Was Going o'er Salisbury Plain From: Mary Humphreys Date: 20 May 04 - 01:58 PM Something in the back of my mind tells me that the tune was noted by Kidson.I haven't seen the Kidson version's music myself so I am probably mis-informed. Does anyone know? Mary |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I Was Going o'er Salisbury Plain From: pavane Date: 21 May 04 - 01:30 AM When I lived in Chadwell Heath, 1960s to 1971, our local library had a copy of Kidson (Dated 1896). Wonder if it is still there. The date stamps in it went back to 1936 so it wasn't borrowed much! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I Was Going o'er Salisbury Plain From: Herga Kitty Date: 21 May 04 - 03:05 AM The song doesn't appear in my copy of Kidson's Traditional Tunes (republished 1970). Kitty |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I Was Going o'er Salisbury Plain From: GUEST,MCP Date: 21 May 04 - 04:58 AM Mary - Roud lists nothing for the song from Kidson. Versions seem to have been collected by Merrick, Fowke, Baring-Gould, Sharp, Gardiner, Duncan and Greig. Mick |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I Was Going o'er Salisbury Plain From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 21 May 04 - 01:07 PM Although Roud classes The Hopkin Boys et al. (Greig-Duncan I, no. 89, 217-221 ) under the same number (588) as The Blues, I can't help but feel that it's really a quite separate song, though on much the same subject. It shares a verse with Lancashire Lads (Roud 1430), and seems to have more in common with that song (though I haven't checked the tunes). |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I Was Going o'er Salisbury Plain From: GUEST,Sieffe Date: 21 Jun 06 - 03:26 PM Third verse . . . Then each one home to their mothers did run, saying,"My heart is undone , it is true!" "I'll pack up my clothes without more delay and boldly I'll march with the Blues and boldly I'll march with the Blues . . ." |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I Was Going o'er Salisbury Plain From: GUEST,Sieffe Date: 21 Jun 06 - 03:44 PM I have to say that after searching fairly diligently on the net I see no mention of any job as a "rouster" . . . I presume this is a Mondegreen but if anyone knows that there was a sort of military position called that, post quick! For a brief moment I was fooled there into thinking that I had been singing the song wrong for 25 years . . . |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE ROUT OF THE BLUES From: GUEST,Sieffe Date: 21 Jun 06 - 03:52 PM This is the version I have been using for 25 years . . .thanks for jogging my memory! The Rout of the blues As I was a-walking on Salisbury Plain I heard such a fuss and to-do For the lassies were crying and tearing their hair For the rout had just come for the Blues The rout had just come for the Blues. Then each one home to their mothers did run Saying, "My heart is undone, it is true I'll pack up my clothes without more delay And boldly I'll march with the Blues And boldly I'll march with the Blues. The landlord and landlady walk hand in hand And so do they pretty girls, too And each of them poured out a bottle of gin To drink a success to the Blues To drink a success to the Blues. Our ship it is rigged and we all set sail How sweetly the French Horns played too And each one let out a loud huzzah "Success to King George and his Blues! "Success to King George and his Blues!" |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I Was Going o'er Salisbury Plain From: GUEST,Sieffe Date: 21 Jun 06 - 03:56 PM oops! forgot this one . . . A finer body of men you'll not find though you search bonny England all through When dressed in His Majesty's coat you'll agree there's none can compare with the blues there's none can compare with the blues |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I Was Going o'er Salisbury Plain From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Aug 20 - 08:14 PM Anything we can do to refine this thread? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I Was Going o'er Salisbury Plain From: Steve Gardham Date: 11 Aug 20 - 02:01 AM What had you in mind, Joe? The broadside versions are flagged up and the collectors of oral versions mentioned. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I Was Going o'er Salisbury Plain From: GUEST,Terry McDonald Date: 11 Aug 20 - 09:53 AM The Hammond Brothers are not mentioned above but they collected a version which they called 'The Blues' from Robert Barrett of Puddletown, Dorset (c1906) with slightly different lyrics. They did, however, note that it was a 'Variant of tune "Rout has come for the Blues" in "Garland of Country Song" p.99. As I was awalking down Staffordshire Square, Some most beautiful place for to view, Then I saw the girls acrying with the wringing of their hands Saying the rout is now come for the Blues, the Blues, Saying the rout us now come for the Blues. Now the landlord and ladies all walk on the lawn, And so do the young women too, Good Lord how you'd laugh to see them plop down, For to take a farewell of the Blues... They're such clever young fellows as my eyes never see, When dressed in the Majesty's clothes You may search all England over, and Scotland all through, You will find no such lads as the Blues.... One daughter to her own mother did say, My heart's full of love it is true, I will pack up my clothes, I will make no delay, I will travel the world with the Blues... Now our ship he's in harbour ready to jump in, With the music aplaying so true, We will give three huzzahs our voices to raise, Here's a health to the Queen & her Blues, her bLues, Success to the Queen and her Blues. |
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