Lyr Req: True Blue/Come all you brave sportsmen

Subject: Lyr Req: True Blue/Come all you brave sportsmen
From: greg stephens
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 08:22 AM

I have a tune, and this fragment of verse, from a c1760 Cumbrian fiddler's manuscript. Anyone got any ideas for the whole words? my searches have been fruitless. Presumably about a greyhound or horse.

Come all you brave sportsmen
I'd have you draw near
All to my song
You quickly shall hear
Of a wonderful match
Which appeared to our view
That was run by the gallant
( Illegible) True Blue

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: True Blue/Come all you brave sportsmen
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:41 AM

Could it be Aughrim Fox Hunt at Bodleian? It's small, but click the + sign upper left.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: True Blue/Come all you brave sportsmen
From: MMario
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:42 AM

I couldn't find anything at Bodlian Ballads

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: True Blue/Come all you brave sportsmen
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:50 AM

Well, I went back and enlarged it and that is NOT it. Wonder why the search returned it??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: True Blue/Come all you brave sportsmen
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:50 AM

Because it starts "Come all you brave sportsmen"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: True Blue/Come all you brave sportsmen
From: MMario
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:53 AM

the search engine on that site is even more quirky then here! I got no hits at all on "brave sportmen"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: True Blue/Come all you brave sportsm
From: greg stephens
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 08:30 PM

I've saerched on every set of words I can think of and got nowhere, and looked in all my books. I'm relying on Masato. with his hidden powers.

Subject: ADD: Jackson and Jane
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:01 PM

You've got a good one, Greg. Seems that it's common to draw those sportsmen near. Mick Bracken posted the lyrics for Joseph Baker here (click). Nothing exactly like your lyrics, though.
-Joe Offer-

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Take a look at this:

Jackson & Jane
(words traditional, music Paul Brady)

You Monaghan sportsmen I pray you draw near ,
To a few simple verses you quickly shall hear,
It's the deeds of a hero that lives near Ballybay,
And they call him Hugh Jackson, I hear people say.

His mill, kilns and barns, they do cut a great show,
And his cloth to the North and the City does go.
At bleaching and lapping he does beat them all,
And his cloth was first approved of at the Linen Hall.

And more of his praises I'm going to explain,
So if you will assist me, I'll sing about Jane,
Search Ireland all over from Cork to Kildare,
And you'll ne'er find a match for Hugh Jackson's gray mare.

He went to the stable, to the mare he did say,
'The hour is approaching and we must away,
For a cup at Cootehill you have twice won with fame,
And this day we are challenged, and you must run again'.

She turned in her stable, 'Kind Sir, don't you know,
This cup is my own and I won't let it go,
For twice I have won it and I mean to do still
And we'll roll it in splendour from the plains of Cootehill:

The Jockeys were mounted and all in a row,
And if you had a' been there when off they did go,
The bets they were makin' ten guineas to four
That the cup back to Creeve would return never more.

When Jane she heard this, well, her mettle did rise,
Over hedges and ditches like lightning she flies,
And with aloud 'neigher' these words she did say,
You Bellamont sportsmen, I'll show yous the way'.

When Jane and her jockey were half round the course,
Miss Jane and her jockey began to discourse,
Said Miss Jane to her jockey 'Kind Sir let me know,
Where are my opponents or are they in view?'

He turned in the saddle and he cast an eye round,
'As for Squire Adams, he lies on the ground,
I'm afraid that poor Curry by Spanker is threw,
And the rest of your opponents they are not yet in view.'

When Jane she heard this, she went in at a race,
And into the scales the balance was laid,
The hall was surrounded for Jackson & Jane,
And the cup went with honours back to Creeve once again.

Source: http://www.paulbrady.com/lyrics/libertytapes.asp

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: True Blue/Come all you brave sportsm
From: greg stephens
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:13 PM

Thanks Joe for those two. The orginal about Joseph Baker that Pete Coe rewrote would intrigue me, especially as I collect Cheshire songs. I'll have to chase that up, unless soemone produces it here.Still waiting on Masato. I have great faith.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: True Blue/Come all you brave sportsm
From: greg stephens
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 12:38 PM

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