Recordings & Info 105. Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
3) Folk Index
4) Child Collection Index
5) Excerpt from The British Traditional Ballad in North America by Tristram Coffin 1950, from the section A Critical Biographical Study of the Traditional Ballads of North America
6) Wiki
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud No. 483: Bailiff's Daughter of Islington (159 Listings)
Alternative Titles
Bailie's Daughter
Bailiff's Daughter, The
The Comely Youth
Nancy the Bailiff's Daughter
The Love Token
True Love Requited
The Shepherd
The Hills o' Traquair
The Bailor's Daughter
There Was a Youth
Traditional Ballad Index: Bailiff's Daughter of Islington, The [Child 105]
DESCRIPTION: A youth is in love with the Bailiff's daughter. He is apprenticed in London for seven years. At last she disguises herself to see if he is still true. They meet; he asks of his love. She says she is dead; he grieves; she reveals herself
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1731 (ballad opera, "The Jovial Crew"); before 1697 (broadside, Bodleian Douce Ballads 2(230a))
KEYWORDS: love separation disguise apprentice
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(All),Scotland(Aber,Bord,Hebr)) US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So) Canada(Mar,Newf) Ireland
REFERENCES: (28 citations)
Child 105, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (1 text)
Bronson 105, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (35 versions+4 in addenda)
Greig #115, p. 1, "The Bailie's Daughter" (1 text)
GreigDuncan1 168, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (5 texts, 6 tunes) {A=Bronson's #12, B=#7, C=#34, D=#10, E=#14, F=#13}
Lyle-Crawfurd1 15, "The Squire's Son of Aizling Town" (1 text)
Williams-Thames, pp. 174-175, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (1 text) (also Wiltshire-WSRO Ox 187)
Wiltshire-WSRO Mi 529, "Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (1 fragment)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 225-227, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (1 text)
Percy/Wheatley III, pp. 135-137, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (1 text)
Davis-Ballads 28, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (1 text plus a fragment, 1 tune) {Bronson's #25}
Belden, pp. 68-69, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #6}
Hudson 18, pp. 114-116, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (1 text)
Flanders/Olney, pp. 41-42, (no title) (2 excerpts which the editors apparently regard as part of "The Bailiff's Daughter")
Flanders-Ancient3, pp. 67-75, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (2 texts plus 2 fragments, 4 tunes, two of the tunes being from the same informant and used for the same text, with some of the differences being perhaps transcribers' variants) {A(1)=Bronson's #31b, A(2)=#31a, B=#23}
Linscott, pp. 160-162, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (1 text, 1 tune) {cf. Bronson's #24, seemingly the source for the tune printed}
Creighton/Senior, pp. 58-62, "The Bailiff's Daugher of Islington" (3 texts, 3 tunes) {Bronson's #19, #20, #18}
Greenleaf/Mansfield 14, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (1 fragment)
Karpeles-Newfoundland 15, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (1 text, 1 tune)
Leach, pp. 313-315, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (2 texts, but the second of these looks more like a George/John Riley text)
Friedman, p. 140, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (1 text, 1 tune)
OBB 162, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (1 text)
SharpAp 30, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (2 texts, 2 tunes){Bronson's #3, #5}
Hodgart, p. 67, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (1 text)
Chappell/Wooldridge II, p. 159, "The Bailiff's Daughter" (1 tune, partial text) {Bronson's #16}
Darling-NAS, pp. 73-75, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 219, "Bailiff's Daughter Of Islington" (1 text)
BBI, ZN2549, "There was a youth, and a well belov'd youth"
DT 105, BAILDAUG*
Roud #483
RECORDINGS:
Albert Beale, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (on FSBBAL1)
Tony Wales, "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" (on TWales1)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Douce Ballads 2(230a), "True Love Requited" or "The Bayliffs Daughter of Islington", P. Brooksby (London), 1672-1696; also Douce Ballads 2(229a), Harding B 5(8), Douce Ballads 3(94a), "True Love Requited[!]" or "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington"; Firth c.26(181), "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington"; Harding B 11(129), Harding B 11(1196), "[The] Bailiff's Daughter"
SAME_TUNE:
I Have a Good Old Mother at Home (per broadside Bodleian Douce Ballads 2(230a))
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Comely Youth
Nancy the Bailiff's Daughter
True Love Requited
The Shepherd
The Hills o' Traquair
NOTES: The 1731 date is for the tune, but the the broadside, ZN2549, was published by Phillip Brooksby sometime between 1683 and 1696. - WBO
Folk Index: The Bailiff's Daughter (of Islington) [Ch 105/Sh 30]
Rt - Mary and Willie
Rm - Cockfight ; Mally Stuart/Stewart
Snyder, Jerry (arr.) / Golden Guitar Folk Sing Book, Hansen, fol (1972), p 31
Friedman, Albert B. (ed.) / Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-S, Viking, sof (1963/1957), p141 [1700s/1850]
Sing Together. A Girl Scout Songbook, Girl Scouts, Sof (1957/1949), p 37
Luboff, Norman; and Win Stracke (eds.) / Songs of Man, Prentice-Hall, Bk (1966), p100
Leisy, James F. (ed.) / Folk Song Abecedary, Bonanza, Bk (1966), p 19
Leach, MacEdward / The Ballad Book, Harper & Row, Bk (1955), p313
Dyer-Bennet, Richard. Richard Dyer-Bennet 2, Dyer-Bennet 2000, LP (1956), trk# A.04
Gooding, Cynthia. Faithful Lovers and Other Phenomena, Elektra EKL 107, LP (1956), trk# A.01
Griffin, Mrs. G. A.. Morris, Alton C. / Folksongs of Florida, Univ. Florida, Bk (1950), p300/#164 [1934] (There Was a Youth)
Hellman, Neal. Hellman, Neal; and Sally Holden / Life Is Like a Mountain Dulcimer, TRO, sof (1974), p23
Pace, Eliza. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p220/# 30B [1917/10/03]
Powell, Talithah (Mrs.). Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p219/# 30A [1917/05/28]
Slade, Mrs. Asenath Slade. Linscott, Eloise Hubbard (ed.) / Folk Songs of Old New England, Dover, Bk (1993/1939), p160 [1920-30s]
Smith, Ralph Lee. Dulcimer. Old Time and Traditional Music, Skyline DD 102, LP (1975), trk# 15 (Baliff's Daughter of Issingham)
Vermont Performing Arts League Singers. Vermont Sampler. A Collection of Traditional Songs & Dance Tunes, Vermont Performing Arts VPAL 103, Cas (1991), trk# A.04
Wood, Joan Taylor. Moore, Ethel & Chauncey (ed.) / Ballads and Folk Songs of the Southwest, Univ. of Okla, Bk (1964), p 80/# 29 [1940s]
Mary and Willie [Laws N28/Me I-A31]
Rt - Apprentice Boy ; Rich Young Farmer ; Baliff's Daughter of Issingham
At - Little Mary ; Sailor's Bride ; Single Sailor ; William and Mary
Laws, G. Malcolm / American Balladry from British Broadsides, Amer. Folklore Soc., Bk (1957), p217 (Willie and Mary)
Freeman, Sybil. McNeil, W. K. (ed.) / Southern Folk Ballads, Vol 1, August House, Sof (1987), p 78 [1941/04] (Little Willie and Mary)
Hill, Sylvia. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p265/# 57B [1940/10/17]
Leslie, Mrs. John. Pound, Louise (ed.) / American Ballads and Songs, Scribner, Sof (1972/1922), p200/# 93 [1915]
Lewis, William. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p264/# 57A [1928/06/04]
Twitchell, Burney. Flanders, Helen H. & George Brown / Vermont Folk Songs and Ballads, Folklore Associates, Bk (1968/1931), p150 [1930/09/24] (Single Sailor)
Child Collection-Child Ballad 105: The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington
Child --Artist --Title --Album --Year --Length --Have
105 Albert Beale The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington BBC Recordings No
105 Albert Beale The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington The Baffled Knight - The Classic Ballads 2 1976 No
105 Albert Beale The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Classic Ballads of Britain & Ireland - Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales, Vol 1 2000 1:42 Yes
105 Alex Robb The Bailie's Daughter (1) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
105 Alex Robb The Bailie's Daughter (2) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
105 Alf Wildman Bailiff's Daughter of Islington The Leaves of Life 1989 No
105 Alf Wildman The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington King's Head Folk Club - Traditional Performers at This London Folk Club 1968-1070 2012 No
105 Amos Jollimore Bailiff's Daughter The Helen Creighton Collection No
105 Amy Ford Bailiff's Daughter of Islington (1) Bob & Jacqueline Patten Collection 1970-1999 No
105 Amy Ford Bailiff's Daughter of Islington (2) Bob & Jacqueline Patten Collection 1970-1999 No
105 Bell Duncan The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
105 Ben Baxter The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington BBC Recordings No
105 Ben Baxter The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington As I Walked Out - Songs from Norfolk 1976 No
105 Billy Clark & John Hodson Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Steve Gardham Collection 1970-1982 1:34 Yes
105 Bob Lewis Balliff's Daughter of Islington It Was on a Market Day - English Traditional Folk Singers - Vol. 1 2002 No
105 Bob Lewis The Baliff's Daughter of Islington A Sweet Country Life - Sussex Family Songs 1979 No
105 Bob Lewis The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Drive Sorrows Away 2010 No
105 Burl Ives The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Philco's Friendly Troubadour - 20 Vintage Radio Broadcasts 1946-47 2004 No
105 Chris Bartram The Bailiff's Daughter of Heslington Yorkie - Traditional Songs from England 2005 No
105 Cynthia Gooding The Bailiff’s Daughter Faithful Lovers and Other Phenomena 1957 3:30 Yes
105 Cyril Barber Bailiff's Daughter of Islington John Howson Collection 1970-1995 No
105 Daisy Chapman The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Ythanside 2001 No
105 David Keith Jones The Bailiff's Daughter Fair Albion 2010 No
105 Danny Carnahan & Robin Petrie The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington + The Mad Otter’s Holt Journeys of the Heart 1984 5:07 Yes
105 Danny Carnahan & Robin Petrie The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Adventures in Music, Vol. 7 - Folk Sampler 1990 5:07 Yes
105 Ellen Gozion The Maid of Islington Awake, Awake 2004 2:38 Yes
105 Faeryharper The Bailiff's Daughter <website> 2007 :48 Yes
105 Freda Palmer The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington When Sheepshearing's Done - Countryside Songs from Southern England 1975 2:01 Yes
105 Hermes Nye The Bailiff's Daughter Anglo-American Ballads 1952 3:45 Yes
105 Hughie Jones The Bailiffs Daughter of Islington Luv Stuff 1999 No
105 James E. Shepard Bailiff's Daughter of Islington (1) The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
105 James E. Shepard Bailiff's Daughter of Islington (2) The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
105 Jim & Mindy Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Music for Relaxation - Featuring the Recorder 2012 No
105 John & Rosy Goacher The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Begone Dull Care! 1977 2:49 Yes
105 Laura Cortese The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Hush 2004 4:27 Yes
105 Lois Lane The Bailiff's Daughter Folk and All That Jazz 2007 2:20 Yes
105 Mac Murrough The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Mac Murrough 1974 3:22 Yes
105 Mary Essex Bailiff's Daughter of Islington (1) Nick & Mally Dow Collection 1986-1991 3:05 Yes
105 Mary Essex Bailiff's Daughter of Islington (2) Nick & Mally Dow Collection 1986-1991 3:14 Yes
105 Mrs. John Fairbanks Bailiff's Daughter The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
105 Mrs. Nina Bartley Finn Bailiff's Daughter The Helen Creighton Collection No
105 Mrs. Olive Coberley The Bailey's Daughter The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection 2:07 Yes
105 Mrs. Phyllis MacDonald Bailiff's Daughter of Islington The Helen Hartness Flanders Collection No
105 Mrs. R.W. Duncan Bailiff's Daughter The Helen Creighton Collection No
105 Mrs. R.W. Duncan Bailiff's Daughter of Islington The Helen Creighton Collection No
105 Paul Clayton The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington Bay State Ballads 1956 3:23 Yes
105 Paul Clayton The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World 1956 3:34 Yes
105 Phyllis Burditt The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Burly Banks of Barbry O: Eight Traditional British-American Ballads 1953
No
105 Ralph Lee Smith & Mary Louise Hollowell The Baliff's Daughter of Issingham Dulcimer - Old Time and Traditional Music 1973
No
105 Richard Dyer-Bennet The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Richard Dyer-Bennet Vol. 2 2001 3:29 Yes
105 Sam Bennett The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Jacky-Boy Master 1975 No
105 Tania Opland & Mike Freeman The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Choice Fare 2000 3:12 Yes
105 Tanya Brody Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Not Your Average..Anything 2004 4:10 Yes
105 The Morning Dew The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington The Morning Dew 1972 3:05 Yes
105 The Taverners The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Seldom Sober 1970 2:54 Yes
105 Tony Wales The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington Sussex Folk Songs and Ballads 1992 2:15 Yes
105 W.C. Cruickshank The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
105 Walter Roast Bailiff's Daughter (1) The Helen Creighton Collection No
105 Walter Roast Bailiff's Daughter (2) The Helen Creighton Collection No
105 Walter Roast Bailiff's Daughter of Islington (1) The Helen Creighton Collection No
105 Walter Roast Bailiff's Daughter of Islington (2) The Helen Creighton Collection No
Excerpt from The British Traditional Ballad in North America
by Tristram Coffin 1950, from the section A Critical Biographical Study of the Traditional Ballads of North America
105. THE BAILIFFS DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON
Texts: Barry, Brit Bids Me, 225 / Belden, Mo F-S, 68 / Crabtree, Overton Cnty, 307/ Davis, Trd Bid Va, 383 / Flanders, Cntry Sgs Vt^ 6 / Flanders, Garl Gn Mt Sg, 74 / Flanders, New Gn Mt Sngstr, 61 / Focus, V, 280 / Greenleaf and Mansfield, Bids Sea Sgs Newfdld, 34 / Hudson, F-S Miss, 1 14 / Hudson, F-T Miss, 4 / Hudson, Spec Miss F-L, # 1 6 / JAFL, XXX, 321; XXXIX, 106 / Linscott, F-S Old NE, i6o/Morris, F-SFla, 453 / SharpK, Eng F-S So Aplchns, I, 219 / Shearin and Combs, Ky Syllabus, 8 / SFLQ, VIII, \Va FLS Bull, #4.
Local Titles: The Bailiff's Daughter, The Bailiffs Daughter of Islington, The Bailor's Daughter, The Comely Youth, There Was a Youth, True Love Requited.
Story Types: A: A loving youth and the very coy bailiff's daughter have been parted for seven years. She had scorned him because she did not feel he really loved her, and his family had sent him away from "his fond and foolish pride". Sometimes, she has been locked up, also. The girl, however, disguises herself in rags, slips off, and goes in quest of her lover. She meets him along the way. When he asks if she knows the bailiffs daughter in her town, she replies that the girl has been dead for a long while. He then says he will go away to a far-off land. On hearing this she reveals her identity and promises to marry him. Sometimes the marriage is included.
Examples: Barry, Davis (A), SharpK (A).
B: The story outline is the same as that of Type A, but the' girl does not disguise herself as a beggar. Rather, she dresses in fine silk and asks for a kiss instead of a penny. The lad buys the girl jewels, and they have a merry wedding. Examples : Hudson, F-S Miss.
Discussion: The Type A stories are similar to Child, but shorter. They derive from print and are generally quite stable. Type B, however, seems to reveal a rather undramatic change that has taken place in the original narrative. However, see Alfred Williams, F-S Uffer Thames, 174 (head-note).
Flanders, New Gn Mt Sngstr, 63 discusses the stability and scope of this ballad in America. For two unique stanzas see this article. See also her Garl Gn Mt Sg, 74 text that follows Child 105 a closely. In addition, A. C. Morris, (SFLQ, VII, 155) notes some interesting intrusions of "cracker" language into the text.
Isabel Rawn (JAFL, XXIX, 201) prints a not uncommon song from Georgia concerning a soldier (or sailor) who returns (at first unknown) to his wife after seven years. She compares this song to Child 105. See also Barry's text, The Love Token, in JAFL, XXIV, 339 and check Owens, SW Sings, n. p., A Pretty Fair Maid where the returning lover is a cowboy.
The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington is Child ballad 105.
Synopsis
The earliest record of this popular folk-song is 1760, in a compendium of songs at that time extant. It concerns a squire's son who -- at an early age -- falls in love with a bailiff's daughter. Clearly an unsuitable pairing. So his family dispatches him up to the city. There an apprenticeship affords him worldly success although servitude in the smoke sharpens his ardour for the maiden he once knew. The bailiff's family falls on hard times. The daughter survives, but is alone, and one day on a roadside encounters the well-beloved youth. She begs a penny. He replies: "before I give you a groat sweetheart, pray tell me where you were born." Does she know of the bailiff's daughter in Islington village? She's dead, the girl asserts sorrowfully. The youth is broken and offhandedly pledges the girl his horse and tack, for he feels like nothing but departing into exile. She cries: oh no! She standeth at thy side, and is ready to be thy bride!
Performances
A version of this ballad is included in the album, "Brimbledon Fair", by Jon Rennard.
One celebrated recording was by Owen Brannigan and Elizabeth Harwood under Sir Charles Mackerras in 1964. It found considerable success in Japan.[1]
Lines
There was a youth, and a well beloved youth,
And he was a squire's son
He loved the bailiff's daughter dear
That lived in Islington. etc.
See also
The New-Slain Knight
The Nut-Brown Maid
References
1.^ "Review - SING THE SONGS OF BRITAIN. - Gramophone Archive". Gramophone.net. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
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