Help: childe song -- woman turns tables

Subject: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables
From: Peter T.
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 11:12 AM

Can someone help me fast? I have totally blanked on the name of the song (a childe ballad if I recall) where the ruffianly man takes the woman out to the edge of the river to drown her, and she turns the tables on him by getting him to turn around while she strips, upon which she dumps him in the river. I need this today if possible for a planning meeting (not a meeting on how to plan to dump someone in a river).

Help!! (glub, glub!!)

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables
From: Sooz
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 11:15 AM

The Outlandish Knight?

Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables
From: Chris Green
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 11:26 AM

Sounds like that's the one you want! Lyrics are here. I normally leave out the bit at the end with the parrot - maybe I'm being a philistine, but I can't see that it really adds anything to the narrative!

Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables
From: Peter T.
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 11:29 AM

3 minutes? Boy this place is slipping.

Thanks a lot!!!!

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 11:32 AM

It's Child #4 (no "e" in Child).
Digitrad has 9 version of it.

Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables
From: Chris Green
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 11:34 AM

Nic Jones has recorded it (two different versions!) and so has Martin Carthy. It's also in the Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, with tune!

Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables
From: Peter T.
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 11:41 AM

Rick Fielding did a wonderful version of it with great gusto, and I have the Carthy version, and the Penguin Book!! It was just one of those things, I just completely blanked on it !

Mudcat to the rescue.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 11:56 AM

Norma Waterson also sings a version.

Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 04:58 PM

As does Burl Ives, as does Richard Dyer-Bennet. And maybe Pete Seeger??

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 05:44 PM

It was a very popular song in its time, known throughout the English-speaking world (and with close relatives all over Western Europe) and is still found in oral currency. A list of revival performers who haven't recorded arrangements would probably be shorter than a list of those who have!

More details in numerous past threads here.

Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 06:35 PM

That's a great song, with quite a few interesting variations.

Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables
From: Cats
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 01:58 PM

Having just bought myself a complete Childe.. my pressie to me... there are various versions of the Outlandish Knight mainly collected by Lucy Broadwood and J A Fuller in English County Songs. It could also be Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight as that has an identical story line and is also in Childe.