Lyr Req: the blue cockade

26 Jul 01 - 10:43 AM (#514909)
Subject: the blue cockade
From: GUEST

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26 Jul 01 - 10:53 AM (#514924)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: Sorcha

download here. Please and thank you would be nice........

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26 Jul 01 - 10:55 AM (#514926)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: MMario

per this thread this is the same as the "White Cockade" in the Digital Tradition...

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26 Jul 01 - 11:03 AM (#514934)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: Sorcha

Which one, MMario? According to SuperSearch, ( here) there are 3 in the DT.

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26 Jul 01 - 11:08 AM (#514937)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: MMario

from the lyrics qouted it would be

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26 Jul 01 - 11:10 AM (#514938)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: pavane

There are several versions in the Bodley Library, if you want slightly different words. White and Blue are pretty much interchangeable though. Note that there are at least THREE different songs called the White Cockade. One is the common English song often starting like
It was one Monday morning, as I trip'd o'er the moss
the other a Scots song
I met my love in Aberdeen, the Bonniest lad that e'er was seen
The third, in the Bodley, is different again, but not decipherable

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26 Jul 01 - 11:11 AM (#514940)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: MMario

crap! here

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26 Jul 01 - 11:14 AM (#514943)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: MMario

the "they advanced me" one....

I hate relative links, I HATE relative links, I hate relative links. I hate'em.

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26 Jul 01 - 12:05 PM (#514982)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: Keith A of Hertford

Anyone know why I can't see Guest's post? Also why do I always get smirks and giggles when I sing the Recruited Collier line "The very sight of his cockade it set us all a crying"

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26 Jul 01 - 12:15 PM (#514998)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: MMario

no one can see guest's post. if you do a "view source" you will see there is nothing there to see.

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26 Jul 01 - 01:21 PM (#515041)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: pavane

Yes, I have heard it pronounced cockad, possibly to avoid the obvious pun. MMario, what was that link to? And what was crap?

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26 Jul 01 - 03:43 PM (#515160)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: Malcolm Douglas

Frank Purslow (The Wanton Seed, 1968) had this to say on the subject:

"A widely travelled song, the colour of the recruit's cockade changing according to the area in which the song is found or the political opinion of a singer through whose hands (or mouth!) the song has passed.  During the 18th century wars, cockades of their national colours were worn by the soldiers engaged.  The white cockade became the distinctive emblem of the Jacobites and this is usually the colour mentioned in Northern counties, where the song may possibly have originated.  "The Orange and Blue" (which also appears in the song Green Grows the Laurel,) may refer to the army of William III, in which case the "blue" version of the song must be the earlier."

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26 Jul 01 - 03:45 PM (#515164)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: MMario

the link was to the version of "White Cockade" the previous thread linked had identified as being "Blue cockade" - the "crap" was for the fact that I messed something up in my first try so the link wasn't even visible - let alone working. The second try didn't work either.

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26 Jul 01 - 05:44 PM (#515307)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: Sorcha

LOL, my link to the SS results didn't work too well either.

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27 Jul 01 - 02:30 AM (#515673)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: pavane

Here's a link to the third song I mentioned, which I couldn't decipher, but appears to be a completely different song: The White Cockade

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27 Jul 01 - 02:34 AM (#515676)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the blue cockade
From: pavane

Now here is a copy I CAN read! The White Cockade

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