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02 Oct 99 - 06:33 PM (#120130) Subject: Meeting's a pleasure From: Bruce O. Meeting's a Pleasure, but parting's a grief An Unconstant Lover is worse than a thief A thief he can robb me and take what I have But an Unconstant Lover will bring me to the Grave
Commencement of "The Young Man's Lamentation", 1690's. Douce ballads 2(261b) Sound familiar?
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02 Oct 99 - 06:44 PM (#120133) Subject: RE: Meeting's a pleasure From: Gene Looks strangely familiar...[in database] 1) PRETTY POLLY 3 A meeting is a pleasure a parting is a grief An unconstant lover is worse than a thief A thief can but rob you and take all you have 2) ON TOP OF OLD SMOKY Though courting's a pleasure and parting is grief A false-hearted lover is worse than a thief For a thief will just rob you and take what you have 3) JOHNNY AND MOLLIE A meeting is a pleasure but parting is grief An inconstant lover is worse than a thief For a thief can but rob you and take all you have |
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02 Oct 99 - 06:55 PM (#120136) Subject: RE: Meeting's a pleasure From: Banjer From the 1690's? I guess we'll have to classify it as part of the folk process since I don't think plagiarism laws were fully established back then..*BG* I know that at least for the rest of this day and probably tommorow I shall be singing or humming 'On Top Of Old Smoky'...Thanks Bruce O..... |
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02 Oct 99 - 07:32 PM (#120150) Subject: RE: Meeting's a pleasure From: Malcolm Douglas It's what (Bert Lloyd?) called a "floating verse". Turns up all over the place. Entire songs are made of them! Malcolm |
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02 Oct 99 - 07:37 PM (#120152) Subject: RE: Meeting's a pleasure From: sophocleese If you've got a good tune there's no point letting it die for lack of words is there? A past equivalent to the Dover books of copyright free illustrations. |
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05 Oct 99 - 04:48 AM (#120869) Subject: RE: Meeting's a pleasure From: Fionan It's on Eliza Carthy's 'Red Rice' in a song called 'The Americans have Stolen My True Love Away' |
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05 Oct 99 - 09:21 AM (#120901) Subject: RE: Meeting's a pleasure From: A descendent of a 17th century ballad by Laurence Price, "Now the tyrant has stolen my dearest away". S |