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03 Sep 17 - 08:02 PM (#3875056) Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: A FARMER'S SON SO SWEET From: Nigel Parsons A FARMER'S SON SO SWEET Collected & arranged Cecil J Sharp A farmer's son so sweet Was keeping of his sheep, And careless fell asleep, While his lambs were playing. A fair young lady gay, By chance she came that way. And found asleep he lay, Whom she loved so dear. She kissed his lips so sweet, As fast he lay asleep. I fear my heart will break For you, my dear. She said: Awake I pray, The sun is on the hay; Your flock will go astray From you my dear. He woke with great surprise Beheld her handsome eyes. Like an angel from the skies She did appear. For your sweet sake alone, I wandered from my home: My friends are dead and gone: I am left alone. His flock he laid aside: Made her his gentle bride. In wedlock she was tied To the farmer's son. X: 1 T: Farmer's Son M: 4/4 L: 1/4 Z: NP 04/09/2017 K: G z3 D| G B A A | D3 D| BABc|d3 d| edcB|c2 B3/2 G| AAG/2 G3/2 w: A far-mer's son so sweet Was kee-ping of his sheep, and care-less fell a-sleep, While his lambs were play-ing. From: A Selection of Collected Folk Songs arranged by Cecil J Sharp and R Vaughan Williams Published by Novello & Co (Undated) NP |
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03 Sep 17 - 08:33 PM (#3875057) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A Farmer's Son So Sweet From: GUEST Collected from Mrs. Snow of Somerton, Somerset by Sharp on 5th Jan 1906; Also collected several times by Baring-Gould and Miss Broadwood. No indication who Vaughan Williams collected it from. Tim Radford |
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03 Sep 17 - 10:16 PM (#3875061) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A Farmer's Son So Sweet From: Joe Offer Roud gives this song #1431, and gives 66 citations for the song. As far as I can tell, there is no listing for this song in the Traditional Ballad Index, and I don't find it in the Digital Tradition. Have we had anything posted on this song before? -Joe- |
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04 Sep 17 - 03:25 AM (#3875079) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A Farmer's Son So Sweet From: Nigel Parsons Joe: I checked before posting & couldn't see anything. I'll be going through the book (A Selection of Collected Folk Songs arranged by Cecil J Sharp and R Vaughan Williams Published by Novello & Co (Undated))to see if there's anything else in there which isn't yet represented. Cheers Nigel |
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05 Sep 17 - 07:38 AM (#3875295) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A Farmer's Son So Sweet From: Joe Offer Hi, Nigel - "A Farmer's Son So Sweet" was a real "find." What books or other resources contain songs Sharp collected in the British Isles? I have Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, but not much from the UK other than The Idiom of the People (Reeves - 115 songs collected by Sharp, lyrics only); and a Dover reprint of a 1916 book called One Hundred English Folksongs, edited by Sharp. Is that all there is? Can you tell us more about the book you have? Since Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, is so comprehensive, I'm surprised Sharp didn't do something equally significant for the British Isles. -Joe- |
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05 Sep 17 - 12:55 PM (#3875363) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A Farmer's Son So Sweet From: Nigel Parsons Okay, Joe, as you ask. The comment at the end of the first post covers most of what is on the title page, but for the sake of completeness:
The pages are sequentially numbered (what a surprise) but each song has its own Novello copyright date at the bottom. (all dated between 1908 & 1913 but not in date order) so this gives an earliest date for the book of 1913. Most of the songs are headed 'Somerset' so it is likely that this was published as an example of 'regional' songs (or regional 'derivatives') The next one I'm likely to Transcribe is 'Heave away my Johnny' which doesn't seem to appear in the DT or the 'cat. Contents list: A Farmer's Son so sweet Admiral Benbow As I walked through the meadows Brennan on the moor Bingo (B.I.N.G.O.) Come all you worthy Christian men Dashing away with the smoothing iron Down by the Riverside Farmyard song Green Broom Heave away, my Johnny I will give my love an Apple I'm seventeen come Sunday King Herod and the cock My boy Billy My man John O No, John! O Waly Waly One man shall mow my meadow Spanish Ladies The Briery Bush The Carter The coasts of High Barbary The crystal Spring The female Highwayman The Fox The Holly and the Ivy The Keeper The keys of Canterbury The Lark in the morn The painful Plough The Red-Herring The Sheep Shearing The Tree in the wood Wassail song William Taylor Anyone want something specific from there I'm happy to transcribe, as time allows, or to send a scan for that person to transcribe (a suitable quid pro quo) Any I transcribe will have the melody in ABC format (to the best of my ability) although the book has accompaniments as well. (hence the comment on the title page of 'voice parts only' also available. Cheers Nigel |
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06 Sep 17 - 03:33 PM (#3875546) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A Farmer's Son So Sweet From: Joe Offer Thanks, Nigel - My copy of One Hundred English Folksongs has many of the same songs, but the two books are not identical. Mine was published by Oliver Ditson Company of Boston in 1916, and reprinted by Dover. My book doesn't have "A Farmer's Son So Sweet." -Joe- |
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06 Sep 17 - 03:50 PM (#3875547) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A Farmer's Son So Sweet From: Steve Gardham Joe, Sharp tended to publish things in smaller batches. I suppose the most influential set was the 5-vol set of 'Folk Songs in Somerset'. However most of his English manuscript stuff was published by Maud Karpeles in the 2 vol Cecil Sharp's collection of English Folk Songs. I think all of Sharp's manuscripts, English and American, are available online at the EFDSS website. Other than that if you still need a biblio I would suggest Wikipedia. And again Steve Roud has a full biblio for most folk song books ever published in English and this is available with his indexes, both from him direct in various formats and on the EFDSS website. |
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06 Sep 17 - 05:08 PM (#3875551) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A Farmer's Son So Sweet From: Nigel Parsons Heave away, my Johnny now added Cheers Nigel |
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09 Sep 17 - 06:52 PM (#3876201) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A Farmer's Son So Sweet From: Nigel Parsons Admiral Benbow added. Clearly a variation to those we already hold. |