ADD:Hembrick Town - Katharine Jaffray(Child # 221)

Subject: Hembrick Town
From: GEST
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 02:05 PM

Hembrick Town is in Kenneth Peacock's collection, Songs Of The Newfoundland Outports, and James Prescott refers Hembrick Town to Katherine Jaffray (Child #221).

Can someone please explain the relationship between Hembrick Town and Katherine Jaffray. Thank-you.

Subject: RE: Hembrick Town
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 03:58 PM

Hi, GEST - as far as I can see, "Hembrick Town" hasn't been posted here. Can you oblige? Note that I added Katharine Jaffray to the thread title for indexing purposes.
Thanks.
-Joe Offer-

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Here is the Traditional Ballad Index entry on Katharine Jaffray. Peacock appears to be the only source for "Hembrick Town."

Katharine Jaffray [Child 221]

DESCRIPTION: Squire courts farmer's daughter; father forbids her to see him. She is to be wed to another. He invades the wedding. The bride's brother challenges him; he says he comes in friendship and asks to kiss the bride. He takes her away from the hall
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1802
KEYWORDS: wedding nobility trick elopement disguise clothes
FOUND IN: Britain(England,Scotland(Aber)) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland US(SE)
REFERENCES (14 citations):
Child 221, "Katharine Jaffray" (12 texts)
Bronson 221, "Katharine Jaffray" (11 versions)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 400-406, "The Squire of Edinburgh Town" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #8}
BrownII 39, "Katharine Jaffray" (1 text)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 79-83, "Katharine Jaffray" (2 texts plus 1 fragment, 1 tune) {Bronson's #4}
Creighton-NovaScotia 11, "Katharine Jaffray" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #3}
Peacock, pp. 200-201, "Hembrick Town" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 20, "The Green Wedding" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 578-579, "Katherine Jaffray" (1 text)
Friedman, p. 271, "Katharine Jaffray" (2 texts)
OBB 88, "Katharine Johnstone" (1 text)
Sharp-100E 16, "The Green Wedding" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #6}
Gummere, pp. 263-264+357-358, "Katharine Jaffray" (1 text)
DT 221, LOCHNGAR* LOCHNGR2* (the latter listed in some versions as Child 211)
ST C221 (Full)
Roud #93
RECORDINGS:
Cecilia Costello, "The Green Wedding (Catharine Jaffray)" (on FSBBAL2)
Thomas Moran, "The Green Wedding (Catharine Jaffray)" (on FSBBAL2) {Bronson's #11}
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(2364), "The Squire of Edinburgh!," H. Such (London), 1849-1862; also 2806 c.11(72), "The Squire of Edinburgh!"; 2806 c.15(151), 2806 b.9(233), "The Squire of Edinburgh Town"
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Lochingar
Lochnagar
Katherine Jeffreys
Notes: This is the inspiration for Walter Scott's poem "Young Lochinvar." - PJS, RBW
Barry, Eckstorm, and Smyth place "The Squire of Edinburgh Town" among the secondary ballads -- those derived from but not identical to the Child Ballads. Child himself seems to have thought that "Squire" was a rewrite of "Katherine Jaffray." But Bronson (and Roud) lump them, and given the amount of common material and the lack of individual identity in "Squire," it seems to me proper to do the same. - RBW
File: C221

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Subject: RE: Hembrick Town - Katharine Jaffray (Child # 221)
From: GEST
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 07:51 PM

Sorry, Joe ~ If I could oblige, I would have answered my own post. :-)

Subject: RE: Hembrick Town - Katharine Jaffray (Child # 221
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 08:23 PM

Oh, darn. I've been waiting for the digital version of Songs Of The Newfoundland Outports to come out. Maybe somebody else can help.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: LYR. ADD: HEMBRICK TOWN
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 08:32 PM

HEMBRICK TOWN
[Katherine Jaffray (Child 221)]

There is a man in Hembrick town, a man of high degree,
He courted a country girl and a comely girl was she;
He got consent from all of her friends, her father and mother likewise,
But still she cries, "I am undone," as the tears rolled from her eyes.

She wrote to him a letter and she signed it with her hand;
'I'm going to get married now unto some other man.'
The very first line he looked up and he smiled and this did say;
"I'll 'prive you of your bride," he said, "all on your wedding day."

He wrote her back an answer to be sure to dress in green;
'A suit of the same I will put on, to your wedding I'll be seen,
A suit of the same I will put on, to your wedding I'll appear,
I'll wed with you, mu heart's delight, in spite of all in there.'

He then looked east, he then looked west, he gazed all o'er the land,
Until he spied 'bout eight-score men out of the British band;
He then mounted on his milk-white steed and a single man rod' he,
Away from Hembrick town he is gone and his company dressed in green.

"You're welcome in," said a good old man, "where have you been all day?
Or what may be these eight-score men that passed along this way?"
He laughed at him, he scoffed at him, and this to him did say,
"That might have been some fairy troops had passed along this way."

She then poured out a glass of wine with a toast go merrily 'round,
How happy, happy is the man, the man to enjoy his crown;
How happy, happy is the man, the man to enjoy his bride,
When another young man that loves her so well would take her from his side.

Oh up then speaks this young bridegroom and a well-speaking man was he.
"If it is for fighting you came here I am the boy for thee."
"It's not for fighting but for friendship for to show,
So give me one kiss from your bonny bright bride and away from you I'll go."

He took her by the slender waist and around the grass-green sleeves,
And out of the wedding house he did go and his company asked no leave.
The bells did ring, sweet music played, and most gladly to be seen,
And away for Hembrick town he is gone and his company dressed in green.

With music; from Clarence Bennett, St. Paul's, 1958.
Peacock: "In his note on Katherine Jaffray, Professor Child quotes from a variant recited by an Irish girl then living in Massachusetts. This Newfoundland variant is much closer to the Irish variant than it is to any of the other variants listed by Child. A similar version has also been noted in 1932 from an Irish immigrant living in Vermont."
Peacock, Kenneth, 1965, "Songs of the Newfoundland Outports," Nat. Mus. Canada, Bull. 197, vol. 1, pp. 200-201.

Subject: RE: Hembrick Town - Katharine Jaffray (Child # 221
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 08:43 PM

Seems like a verse or two are missing.
Don't know what rod' he, verse 4 line 3, means. Rode? Confusing.

Subject: RE: ADD:Hembrick Town - Katharine Jaffray(Child # 221)
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 08:54 PM

The story is essentially the same, but the song seems to belong to a separate branch of the family. Maud Karpeles got another one, The Green Wedding, also in Newfoundland; and various others have turned up in the USA, Ireland and England. They seem to derive from a mid 19th century broadside re-write of the story, The Squire of Edinburgh. Several editions can be seen at Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads:

The squire of Edinburgh town

Subject: RE: ADD:Hembrick Town-Katharine Jaffray(Child #221)
From: GEST
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 09:55 PM

Weird. It's as if Clarence Bennett, from whom Peacock collected many songs, made this variant up from a waning memory.

I was thinking of making up a more Canadianized variant of Katherine Jaffry which at least makes a bit more sense. Like this: http://wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/15/katherine.htm

Thanks, Q. Do you think Hembrick is on a map somewhere? ~grin~

Subject: Tune Add: Hembrick Town
From: masato sakurai
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 10:08 PM

The tune from Peacock (vol. 1, p. 200):

X:1
T:Hembrick Town
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:G
(B/c/)|\
w:There_
M:9/8
(dB) A (G2 d) (d2 B)|\
w:is_ a man_ in_
M:6/8
(cB) A (GF) G|A F E D2 E|
w:Hem - brick town,_ a man of a high de-
(C3 C2) B|\
w:gree,_ He
M:9/8
(dB) A (G2 d) (d2 B)|\
w:court - ed of_ a_
M:6/8
(cB) A G F G|
w:coun - try girl and a
A2 F D2 B,|(C3 C2) B|\
w:come-ly girl was she;_ He
M:9/8
(dB) A (G2 d) (d2 B)|
w:got_ con-sent_ from_
M:6/8
c B A (GF) G|A A F D D B,|(C3 C2) B,|
w:all of her friends,_ her fa-ther and mo-ther like-wise,_ But
D2 D c2 E|(=FE) F G E D|(CD) D G2 ^F|(G3 G2)|]
w:still she cries, "I am_ un-done," as the tears_ rolled from her eyes.

Subject: RE: ADD:Hembrick Town - Katharine Jaffray(Child # 221)
From: Snuffy
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 08:48 AM

Maybe Edinburgh = Embro = Hembrick?