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19 Oct 09 - 06:50 AM (#2747796) Subject: Origins: Pull away, my boys, pull away From: Steve Gardham Yes, checked Digitrad and not apparently there. I have a piece of sheet music c1890 'Rocked in the cradle of the deep'. Written out on the back of page are the words to a song which has this chorus. Unfortunately the sheet has been cropped at the top and at least the first line is missing. It looks very much like one of Fred Weatherley's pieces in imitation of tradition, but there is a slim chance it may be trad. Here is what's left of the first stanza. If anyone can supply the missing first line(s)I'd be obliged, or put a title to it. The obvious title would be 'Pull Away' or that given above. '...................................... When forced to bid farewell to Loo Pull away, my boys, pull away, I did not know what I should do, Pull away, pull away, I left her weeping on the quay, She said she would be true to me, As we sailed to the Southern Sea Pull away, pull away, pull away. There is one other stanza of 9 lines inc. refs which makes it pretty obvious there is only one line missing. Thanks for looking and any help appreciated. SteveG |
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19 Oct 09 - 07:09 AM (#2747803) Subject: RE: Origins: Pull away, my boys, pull away From: nutty It's traditional Steve. It's in the Bodliean as The Tar's Farewell See Here |
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19 Oct 09 - 07:44 AM (#2747813) Subject: RE: Origins: Pull away, my boys, pull away From: Mick Pearce (MCP) Several catalogue references in Roud broadside index, plus 2 to books. You can find a set with music in Heart Songs Dear To The American People (1909) at archive.org. (Use page n209 in the online reader to see it). The credit there is Stephen Adams, which I'm guessing is the pseudonym use for composer Michael Maybrick (1841-1913), who probably did the setting, but I haven't pursued that to check. Mick |
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19 Oct 09 - 07:46 AM (#2747814) Subject: RE: Origins: Pull away, my boys, pull away From: Mick Pearce (MCP) I should have added tut, tut, Steve. Fancy not looking for that first line in Roud ;-). Mick |
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19 Oct 09 - 08:43 AM (#2747844) Subject: RE: Origins: Pull away, my boys, pull away From: Mick Pearce (MCP) Just to add, there are a couple of copies at LOC. One of them: Tar's Farewll (1) (published Boston: White, Smith & Co., 1878), attributes the words to F.C.Burnand. Mick |
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19 Oct 09 - 08:51 AM (#2747847) Subject: RE: Origins: Pull away, my boys, pull away From: Mick Pearce (MCP) This catalogue of Stephen Adams songs confirms the author as Francis Burnand: The Songs of Stephen Adams, alias Michael Maybrick. So not so traditional after all! He also points out an alternative title: I have also noted a number called The Sailor's Farewell, which turns out to be an alternative US title for The Tar's Farewell. The words were by Punch contributor F. C. Burnand. Mick |
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19 Oct 09 - 06:36 PM (#2748304) Subject: RE: Origins: Pull away, my boys, pull away From: Steve Gardham Thanks, Mick and Hazel. I wasn't far wrong in postulating Fred Weatherley as the author. He and Adams are much of a muchness. I wonder if Burnand is another pseudonym of Adams/Maybrick. Problem solved. I see by the copy of a broadside I have that it isn't actually lacking a first line as I assumed. Many thanks, Steve |
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19 Oct 09 - 07:04 PM (#2748327) Subject: RE: Origins: Pull away, my boys, pull away From: Mick Pearce (MCP) Steve - Burnand was a humourist and dramatist (and, as the Adams' Song site said, a Punch contributor for a long time - got a knighthood for that). There are plenty of referneces to him on the web. Here's the Wikipedia article on him for starters: Francis Burnand Mick |
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19 Oct 09 - 07:50 PM (#2748373) Subject: RE: Origins: Pull away, my boys, pull away From: Q (Frank Staplin) Mudcat won't let me 'pull away' from this thread. Try again |
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20 Oct 09 - 07:05 AM (#2748574) Subject: RE: Origins: Pull away, my boys, pull away From: Steve Gardham Join the Q! Just for completeness Kilgarriff has it in Adams's repertoire c1880 which fits the earlier 1878 date well enough. I see that Adams and Weatherley co-operated on a number of songs. They seem to have specialised in writing stuff in a folky idiom, but as far as I know none of their material was ever collected in folk tradition. It just goes to show that what makes it into oral tradition is not dependent on style but more simply whether it's a good song or not with some sort of appeal. |
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20 Oct 09 - 08:04 AM (#2748609) Subject: RE: Origins: Pull away, my boys, pull away From: autoharper "Sailors were so accustomed to singing out when there was a pull to be made, that I have actually heard an old sailor give a 'Yip-Ho-Hip' when pulling on his sea boots…" -Frederic Pease Harlow _Chanteying Aboard American Ships_ (Harlow went to sea in 1870) -Adam Miller |
