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30 Apr 21 - 10:34 AM (#4104065) Subject: Lyr Req: Folk Song Title From: wilbyhillbilly Help! I need help from one of you highly intelligent folkies out there please. I am making a video of Beth for a local Folk Festival appearance, she is not reachable at the moment and I have a deadline to meet, part of the verse is,
he's the one I adore, he is gone and i'll never not see him no more. She jumps off a cliff to join him at the end. Hope it rings a bell for someone, thanks in advance John |
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30 Apr 21 - 10:40 AM (#4104067) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folk Song Title From: r.padgett correct title is The Drowned Sailor often misnamed as Constant Lovers which is a different song! Ray |
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30 Apr 21 - 10:44 AM (#4104069) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folk Song Title From: Steve Gardham Ah, my love's Dead. Very old song. has antecedents in the 17th century. Laws K17, Roud 466. Master Title 'The Lover's Lament for her Sailor'. Most oral versions derive from Sam Cowell's burlesque version c1850. the 17th century version is called 'Captain Digby's Farewell'. |
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30 Apr 21 - 11:01 AM (#4104078) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Folk Song Title From: wilbyhillbilly Wow! Thanks you two, what a quick response, fantastic. I can now go ahead. |
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30 Apr 21 - 01:48 PM (#4104093) Subject: RE: Info: Folk Song Title _ Drowned Sailor From: Joe Offer Doesn't Dave Webber call it "Constant Lovers"? Dave Webber is WRONG? |
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30 Apr 21 - 02:17 PM (#4104094) Subject: RE: Info: Folk Song Title _ Drowned Sailor From: RTim I call it "My Love is Gone" - as do the Copper Family and this was my source... Tim Radford |
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01 May 21 - 12:59 AM (#4104130) Subject: RE: Info: Folk Song Title _ Drowned Sailor From: GerryM All the back-and-forth about songs & names reminds me of this scene from Alice in Wonderland: ‘The name of the song is called “HADDOCKS’ EYES.”’ ‘Oh, that’s the name of the song, is it?’ Alice said, trying to feel interested. ‘No, you don’t understand,’ the Knight said, looking a little vexed. ‘That’s what the name is CALLED. The name really IS “THE AGED AGED MAN.”’ ‘Then I ought to have said “That’s what the SONG is called”?’ Alice corrected herself. ‘No, you oughtn’t: that’s quite another thing! The SONG is called “WAYS AND MEANS”: but that’s only what it’s CALLED, you know!’ ‘Well, what IS the song, then?’ said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered. ‘I was coming to that,’ the Knight said. ‘The song really IS “A-SITTING ON A GATE”: and the tune’s my own invention.’ |
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01 May 21 - 07:50 AM (#4104161) Subject: RE: Info: Folk Song Title - Drowned Sailor From: Steve Gardham One reason why Master Titles and Roud/Laws/Child numbers are useful. |
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08 Nov 21 - 08:46 PM (#4125597) Subject: RE: Info: Folk Song Title - Drowned Sailor From: Reinhard Stow Brow a.k.a. The Drowned Sailor (Roud 185) is quite another song than is discussed here. |
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09 Nov 21 - 06:19 PM (#4125670) Subject: RE: Info:Lover's Lament for her Sailor/My Love Is Gone From: GeoffLawes This link gives full Lyrics ,information and a recording from Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman:http://folksongandmusichall.com/index.php/o-my-love-is-gone/ |
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09 Nov 21 - 06:50 PM (#4125674) Subject: RE: Info:Lover's Lament for her Sailor/My Love Is Gone From: GUEST,Grishka Plenty of Mudcat threads about this song, best found by the, ehem, monicker "Constant Lovers". For example, I remember contributing to one of them with a lot of work in order to prove that a song need not remain "unaccompanied" forever. Also in a related thread about another song. Well, that was in 2012, we are older now. |