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Subject: Song V on George Stoole From: *#1 PEASANT* Date: 28 Nov 00 - 02:41 PM Song V (George Stoole) A lamentable Ditty, made upon the death of a worthy gentleman, named George Stoole, dwelling sometime on Gate-side Moor, and some time at Newcastle, In Northumberland: with his penitent end. (c. 1610) Come you lusty Northerne lads, Chorus: When Georgie to his triall came, Some did say he would escape, Might friends have satisfide the law, But when this doughty carle was cast, As Georgie went up to the gate, With thousand sighs and heavy looks, He writ a letter with his owne hand, Wherin he did at large bewaile, Why, lady, leave to weepe for me, Out upon the, Withrington, And fie on all such cruell carles, I would I were on yonder hill, They well should know that tooke me first But law condemns me to my grave, He call'd his dearest love to him, He gave to her a piece of gold, And coming to the place of death, And with a cheerful countenance, I never stole no oxe nor cow, For which I am condemn'd to dye The man of death a part did act, Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, my bonny love, -Source: The Northumberland Garland;or Newcastle Nightingale., Joseph Ritson, |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Song V on George Stoole From: GUEST,Bruce O. Date: 28 Nov 00 - 05:21 PM Ritson first gave it in the 1793 edition. He copied it from the sole know exemplar in the Roxburghe collection (ZN707 in my broadside ballad index). It's also given in 'Roxburghe Ballads', I, p. 576, Bell's 'Rhymes of the Northern Bards', and Child, IV, #209, Appendix. I suspect Ritson's date of c 1610 is a bit to early. It was entered with many others in the Stationers' Register on June 1, 1629, but was not among the massive entry of broadside ballads of Dec. 14, 1624.
Missing above (but given by Ritson) and in Child is the tune direction: "To a Delicate Scottish Tune", which we don't have. Alfred Moffat's comment on the tune "God be with thee Geordie" in the Straloch lute MS, c 1627-9, is (in his MS copy of a transcript with his translations) "incomplete, rythm imperfectly marked and barred wrong". |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Song V on George Stoole From: *#1 PEASANT* Date: 28 Nov 00 - 09:30 PM Sorry to have left out the tune reference.... Thanks! Conrad |
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