Subject: ADD: Tom Barbary
From:
Malcolm Douglas
Date: 12 Sep 02 - 11:02 AM
TOM BARBARY
(Noted by Dr. George Gardiner from Charles Bull, Marchwood, Southampton: 1907)
'Twas of a brisk young lady fair,
That was dressed all in green,
And she looked right over the high castle wall,
For to see her father's ship sail in,
For to see her father's ship sail in.
"What is the matter with my daughter dear,
She looks so pale and wan?
Have you been afflicted by any illness,
Or been lying with a false young man,
Or been lying with a false young man?"
"No, I have not been afflicted by any illness,
Nor been lying with a false young man,
For what does grieve me to the very, very heart,
You've been staying so long from home,
You've been staying so long from home."
"Now, pull off your gown of green
And lay it wide along."
And her very under-petticoat had grown so short before,
She was full three-quarters gone,
She was full three-quarters gone.
"Is it by any lord or duke
Or by any gentleman;
Or is it by any sea-captain
That so lately's come to land,
That so lately's come to land?"
"No, it's not by any sea-captain
Nor by any gentleman,
For it is by young Thomas, young Thomas so bright,
Your honoured servantman,
Your honoured servantman."
["Well, and if it's by Tom Barbary,
I think you're not to blame,
For I really do believe if I'd been a maid myself,
That I might have lain with him,
That I might have lain with him."]
Now he called up his servantmen,
By ones and twos and threes;
And young Thomas who used to be the very, very first,
The last came in was he,
The last came in was he.
"Now, wilt thou wed my daughter dear,
And take her by the hand?
For 'tis you that shall dine and shall sup along with me,
And be heir over all my land,
And be heir over all my land."
"Yes, I will wed your daughter dear,
And take her by the hand,
And I will dine and will sup along with you;
But a fig for all your land,
But a fig for all your land.
[For I am one of the King's own sons,
From Dublin town I come,
And where you may give her one penny,
I can give her a thousand and one,
I can give her a thousand and one.]
For I've got gold and silver in store,
And I've got houses and land;
If it had not been for your daughter, daughter dear,
I should never have been your servantman,
I should never have been your servantman."
Tune & Text: Gardiner H.684. Charles Bull, Marchwood, Southampton. June 1907.
Verses 7 and 11 from Gardiner H.1317. Fred Osman, Lower Bartley, Hampshire. Nov 1908.
Roud 64 Child 100
The above text is quoted from The Wanton Seed, ed. Frank Purslow; EFDS Publications, 1968. Purslow comments that verse 8 seems to have crept in from The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter.
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T:Tom Barbary
B:"The Wanton Seed", ed. Frank Purslow; EFDS Publications 1968.
S:Charles Bull, Marchwood, Southampton. June 1907.
Z:Noted by Dr. George Gardiner.
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Another version, this time noted in Dorset by the Hammond brothers, appeared in The Journal of the Folk Song Society (vol.III issue 11, 1907) as Tom the Barber. Child's example 100E, quoted from Notes and Queries (Fifth Series, VII, 387, 1877) is a fragmentary text from the West Country featuring a Johnnie Barbour; example 100J is from Kirkcudbright, learned c.1830s, in which the hero is named John Barborough. He also turns up as John Barber in Ulster.
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