Lyr Req: the blue cockade

Subject: the blue cockade
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 10:43 AM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 10:53 AM

download here. Please and thank you would be nice........

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: MMario
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 10:55 AM

per this thread this is the same as the "White Cockade" in the Digital Tradition...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 11:03 AM

Which one, MMario? According to SuperSearch, ( here) there are 3 in the DT.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: MMario
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 11:08 AM

from the lyrics qouted it would be

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: pavane
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 11:10 AM

There are several versions in the Bodley Library, if you want slightly different words. White and Blue are pretty much interchangeable though. Note that there are at least THREE different songs called the White Cockade. One is the common English song often starting like
It was one Monday morning, as I trip'd o'er the moss
the other a Scots song
I met my love in Aberdeen, the Bonniest lad that e'er was seen
The third, in the Bodley, is different again, but not decipherable

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: MMario
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 11:11 AM

crap! here

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: MMario
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 11:14 AM

the "they advanced me" one....

I hate relative links, I HATE relative links, I hate relative links. I hate'em.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 12:05 PM

Anyone know why I can't see Guest's post? Also why do I always get smirks and giggles when I sing the Recruited Collier line "The very sight of his cockade it set us all a crying"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: MMario
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 12:15 PM

no one can see guest's post. if you do a "view source" you will see there is nothing there to see.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: pavane
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 01:21 PM

Yes, I have heard it pronounced cockad, possibly to avoid the obvious pun. MMario, what was that link to? And what was crap?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 03:43 PM

Frank Purslow (The Wanton Seed, 1968) had this to say on the subject:

"A widely travelled song, the colour of the recruit's cockade changing according to the area in which the song is found or the political opinion of a singer through whose hands (or mouth!) the song has passed.  During the 18th century wars, cockades of their national colours were worn by the soldiers engaged.  The white cockade became the distinctive emblem of the Jacobites and this is usually the colour mentioned in Northern counties, where the song may possibly have originated.  "The Orange and Blue" (which also appears in the song Green Grows the Laurel,) may refer to the army of William III, in which case the "blue" version of the song must be the earlier."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: MMario
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 03:45 PM

the link was to the version of "White Cockade" the previous thread linked had identified as being "Blue cockade" - the "crap" was for the fact that I messed something up in my first try so the link wasn't even visible - let alone working. The second try didn't work either.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 05:44 PM

LOL, my link to the SS results didn't work too well either.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: pavane
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 02:30 AM

Here's a link to the third song I mentioned, which I couldn't decipher, but appears to be a completely different song: The White Cockade

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: pavane
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 02:34 AM

Now here is a copy I CAN read! The White Cockade