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12 Feb 05 - 11:12 AM (#1407214) Subject: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables From: Peter T. Can someone help me fast? I have totally blanked on the name of the song (a childe ballad if I recall) where the ruffianly man takes the woman out to the edge of the river to drown her, and she turns the tables on him by getting him to turn around while she strips, upon which she dumps him in the river. I need this today if possible for a planning meeting (not a meeting on how to plan to dump someone in a river). Help!! (glub, glub!!) yours, Peter T. |
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12 Feb 05 - 11:15 AM (#1407216) Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables From: Sooz The Outlandish Knight? |
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12 Feb 05 - 11:26 AM (#1407226) Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables From: Chris Green Sounds like that's the one you want! Lyrics are here. I normally leave out the bit at the end with the parrot - maybe I'm being a philistine, but I can't see that it really adds anything to the narrative! |
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12 Feb 05 - 11:29 AM (#1407229) Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables From: Peter T. 3 minutes? Boy this place is slipping. Thanks a lot!!!! yours, Peter T. |
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12 Feb 05 - 11:32 AM (#1407231) Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables From: dick greenhaus It's Child #4 (no "e" in Child). Digitrad has 9 version of it. |
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12 Feb 05 - 11:34 AM (#1407233) Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables From: Chris Green Nic Jones has recorded it (two different versions!) and so has Martin Carthy. It's also in the Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, with tune! |
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12 Feb 05 - 11:41 AM (#1407238) Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables From: Peter T. Rick Fielding did a wonderful version of it with great gusto, and I have the Carthy version, and the Penguin Book!! It was just one of those things, I just completely blanked on it ! Mudcat to the rescue. yours, Peter T. |
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12 Feb 05 - 11:56 AM (#1407248) Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables From: GUEST Norma Waterson also sings a version. |
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12 Feb 05 - 04:58 PM (#1407521) Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables From: Uncle_DaveO As does Burl Ives, as does Richard Dyer-Bennet. And maybe Pete Seeger?? Dave Oesterreich |
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12 Feb 05 - 05:44 PM (#1407567) Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables From: Malcolm Douglas It was a very popular song in its time, known throughout the English-speaking world (and with close relatives all over Western Europe) and is still found in oral currency. A list of revival performers who haven't recorded arrangements would probably be shorter than a list of those who have! More details in numerous past threads here. |
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12 Feb 05 - 06:35 PM (#1407622) Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables From: Stilly River Sage That's a great song, with quite a few interesting variations. |
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13 Feb 05 - 01:58 PM (#1408268) Subject: RE: Help: childe song -- woman turns tables From: Cats Having just bought myself a complete Childe.. my pressie to me... there are various versions of the Outlandish Knight mainly collected by Lucy Broadwood and J A Fuller in English County Songs. It could also be Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight as that has an identical story line and is also in Childe. |