Lyr/Chords Add: Mary Ann

Subject: MARY ANN
From: MMario
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 08:50 PM

I think this is significantly different from the one in the DT to be included.

MARY ANN
(collected by Dr. Marious Barbeau from Edouard Hovington, @ Tadoussac, Quebec in 1920. Hovington learned it seventy years earlier from an Irish sailor)

Oh fare thee well, my own true love, oh fare the well my dear
For the ship is waiting the wind blows high
And I am bound away for the sea, mary ann
And I am bound away for the sea, mary ann

Oh yonder don't you see the dove
A sit-ting on the stile?
She is mourning the loss of her own true love
As I do now for you, my dearMary Ann
As I do now for you, my dearMary Ann

A lobster boiling in the pot
A blue fish on the hook
They are suffering long, but it's nothing like
The ache I bear for you, my dear, Mary Ann
The ache I bear for you, my dear, Mary Ann

Oh had I but a flask of gin
With sugar here for two
And a great big bowl for to mix it in
I'd pour a drink for you, my dear, Mary ann
I'd pour a drink for you, my dear, Mary Ann

midi to alan; NWC file to Dickg.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: MARY ANN
From: Gary T
Date: 09 Nov 00 - 08:54 PM

Thanks. I've always liked that one.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: MARY ANN
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Nov 00 - 02:08 PM

Ian and Sylvia do a beautiful rendition of this. One of my favorites.