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Lyr Req: Just as the Tide Was a-Flowing

30 Apr 99 - 03:42 AM (#74521)
Subject: Just as the tide was aflowing
From: Robert.Spowart@student.shu.ac.uk

Over 10 years ago, Geoff Jerram of Winchester Morris used to (and hopefully still does)perform the song with the above chorus accompanying himself on the sqeezebox. Does anyone have the words?????

Bob Spowart

30 Apr 99 - 03:53 AM (#74525)
Subject: RE: Just as the tide was aflowing
From: Joe Offer

Of course we have the lyrics. After all, we ARE the Mudcat Cafe.
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30 Apr 99 - 11:29 AM (#74619)
Subject: RE: Just as the tide was aflowing
From: Margo

I sang a song in college like this but not exactly. It went:

One morning in the month of May down by some rolling river

A jolly sailor I did stray when I beheld my lover.

She carelessly along did stray, a picking of the daisies gay,

and sweetly sang her rondelay, just as the tide was rolling.

I wish I knew more because it is such a pretty song. I wish I could compare melodies, too. Hmmm...time for a MIDI search.

Margarita

01 May 99 - 06:55 AM (#74851)
Subject: RE: Just as the tide was aflowing
From: Glyn (inactive)

Hi You may be interested in a version of "Just as the tide was flowing" 10,000 maniacs recorded on their "The wishing chair" album. It is a lively version and one of my first introductions to traditional music. Let me know what you think of it.

01 May 99 - 07:15 AM (#74853)
Subject: RE: Just as the tide was aflowing
From: Liam's Brother

Hi!

If you want to look for some traditional versions, there is an English set in Marrow Bones, a small book of songs from the Hammond & Gardiner manuscripts published by the English Folk Dance & Song Society. The song has been collected in Canada as well. Peggy Seeger was the first person I ever heard sing this.

All the best,
Dan

03 May 99 - 05:54 AM (#75257)
Subject: RE: Just as the tide was aflowing
From: Brian Peters

There is a melody very different from the one that most people (e.g. Shirley Collins, Silly Sisters, 10,000 Maniacs) sing, in a book by Roy Palmer, an English folklorist who has produced a number of excellent books of traditional British songs. I *think* it's in his "Everyman's Book of English Country Songs" but it might be another one. Anyway, it was collected in Kings Lynn by Vaughan Williams, and the tune just *oozes* eroticism. I sang it on a CD I made with Gordon Tyrrall a couple of years back, and one reviewer said it was "a song to do very rude things to". You can't ask more than that!

03 May 99 - 07:20 PM (#75387)
Subject: RE: Just as the tide was aflowing
From:

Try "Folksongs Collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams" pp94-95