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Lyr Add: Nicol o' Cod (David Herd's manuscripts) Related threads: (origins) Origins: (Dear Old) Buffalo Boy (20) ADD: When You Comin' to Court Me? / Buffalo Boy (12) Lyr Add: Dear Old Mountain Boy (2)
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Subject: Lyr Add: NICOL O' COD (David Herd's manuscripts) From: Bruce O. Date: 14 Feb 98 - 12:10 PM I can't find a version of this in DT, but maybe I just didn't guess right on what to look for.
Nicol o' Cod
1. "Whan'll we be marry'd, The text above is from Hans Hecht's 'Songs from David Herd's Manuscripts', 1904. The actual manuscripts date about 1776. This version of the song appears to be the earliest extant text of a ballad entered in the Stationers' Register as "Nicoll a Cod" on June 1, 1629. The burden line, "My own sweet Nicol a Cod" was quoted a few times in the 17th century. Martin Parker in 'The Legend of Leonard Lackwit', 1633, listed "Nichole-a-Cod" among those ballads of which he knew not the author. The tune "Nichol o Cod" was called for an a late 17th century broadside ballad, "Joan's Victory Over Her Fellow Servants".
American versions of this song include "The Mountaineer's Courtship/ Buffalo Boy". It is said to have been sung by the Hutchinson Family of singers in the 19th century.
J. O. Halliwell-Phillips in 'The Nursery Rhymes of England', 1846, gives another version, untitled:
When shall we be married,
What shall we have for our dinner,
Who shall we have at our wedding,
[Nicol o Cod is here confused with Nicholas Wood, the Great Glutton of Kent. For a ballad on Wood by Richard Climsell, 1630, see 'The Pepys Ballads', I, p.72, 1987, or with notes, H. E. Rollins' 'A Pepysian Garland', p. 342, 1922.] Additional texts:
Recordings: I'm sure my list of references is nowhere near complete. I heard the song once at a craft festival sung by a teacher (Betty Smith?) who said she learned it from pupils in the school at which she taught.
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