Recordings & Info 204A. Waly, Waly, or, Water Is Wide
CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index (Jamie Douglas, also, Waly Waly/The Water is Wide)
3) Child Collection Index
4) 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
5) Folk Index
6) Folk Trax
7) Wiki
8) Mainly Norfolk (lyrics and info)
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud No. 87: Jamie Douglas (96 Listings- includes Waly, Waly)
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Alternative Titles
Waly, Waly, Gin Love Be Bony
Deep in Love
Love is Lovely
The Water is Wide
Jamie Douglas [Child 204]
DESCRIPTION: The singer laments that her happy marriage to Lord James Douglas has been ruined by accusations made by (Blackwood). She tries to convince her husband that she is true. He will not be convinced, and sends her away
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1776 (Herd)
KEYWORDS: marriage separation lie infidelity
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Child 204, "Jamie Douglas" (17 texts)
Bronson 204, "Jamie Douglas" (8 versions including "Waly, Waly")
Lyle-Crawfurd1 50, "Jamie Douglas" (1 text)
Lyle-Crawfurd2 113, "Jamie Douglas" (1 text)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 469-474, "Jamie Douglas" (notes and scattered stanzas, plus a text of "Waly Waly" and a part of Child A)
Leach, pp. 546-551, "Jamie Douglas (3 texts, but the third is "Waly Waly")
Friedman, p. 101, "Jamie Douglas" (2 texts, but the second is "Waly Waly")
OBB 87, "Jamie Douglas" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: William Motherwell, Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern (Glasgow, 1827 ("Digitized by Microsoft")), Appendix pp. v-ix, #III "Lord Jamie Douglas" (1 text)
Roud #87
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Waly Waly (The Water is Wide)" (lyrics)
cf. "Arthur's Seat" (lyrics: one verse)
NOTES: Although based on actual events, the stress of this song seems rather different from the history outlined by Child. That this song is akin to "Waly, Waly" is beyond doubt; too many of the lyrics of the former show up in the latter. "Waly, Waly" has, however, achieved a life of its own (despite the near-compete loss of plot), and so is listed separately.
Most scholars think this the older song, but there are those who hold out for the influence passing the other way -- i.e. that verses from "Waly Waly" have entered "Jamie Douglas." - RBW
Lyle-Crawfurd1's ending is like Child 204N: Jamie Douglas takes the children and goes to the singer's father's house after he had "hanged the Blakemoor The verey place where he told the lie." For the complete text behind Child 204N see the Motherwell reference above. - BS
NAME: Waly Waly (The Water is Wide)
DESCRIPTION: The singer laments the effects of unrequited love and an untrue lover. Typical symbols include the rotten-hearted oak that looks solid but breaks and the beautiful flower protected by thorns. In some versions the lover is untrue; sometimes (s)he is dead
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1714 (Ritson, _Scotish Song_)
KEYWORDS: love rejection lyric nonballad lament lover death
FOUND_IN: Britain(England,Scotland(Aber)) Ireland US(Ap,NE,SE) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES: (24 citations)
Child 204 notes, "Waly, Waly, Gin Love Be Bony" (1 text)
Bronson (204), 8 versions (including "Jamie Douglas")
Percy/Wheatley III, pp. 145-148, "Waly Waly, Love Be Bonny" (1 text)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 469-474, "Jamie Douglas" (notes and scattered stanzas; the only full text is in fact this piece)
Kennedy 149, "Deep in Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
Logan, pp. 336-337, "Picking Lilies" (1 text)
GreigDuncan8 1918, "I Spied a Ship Sailin' on the Sea" (1 fragment)
Greig #173, p. 2, ("I spied a ship sailin' on the sea") (1 fragment)
Peacock, pp. 475-476, "Love is Lovely" (1 text, 1 tune, strongly composite, starting with a verse perhaps from "Peggy Gordon," then the chorus of "Waly Waly (The Water Is Wide)," two more which might be anything, and a conclusion from "Carrickfergus")
Leach, pp. 546-551, "Jamie Douglas" (3 texts, with only the third text belonging with this piece)
Friedman, p. 101, "Jamie Douglas" (2 texts, with only the second text belonging with this piece)
Sharp-100E 39, "O Waly Waly" (1 text, 1 tune)
Reeves-Sharp 108, "Waly Waly" (1 text, a composite of four versions)
Reeves-Circle 30, "Deep in Love", "Picking Lilies" (2 texts)
Sandburg, pp. 16-17, "Waillie, Waillie!" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #8}
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 218-219, "Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hodgart, p. 143, "O Waly, Waly" (1 text)
Lomax-FSNA 70, "Love is Pleasin'" (1 text, 1 tune, of four verses, two of which go here, one belongs with "Fair and Tender Ladies," and the fourth could be from several sources; the whole could be a "Love is Teasing" variant)
HarvClass-EP1, pp. 323-324, "O Waly, Waly" (1 text)
PSeeger-AFB, p. 77, "The Water Is Wide" (1 text, 1 tune)
SHenry H683, p. 393, "The Apron of Flowers" (1 text, 1 tune -- apparently a collection of floating verses including one that goes here)
Silber-FSWB, p. 145, "Waillie"; p. 163, "The Water Is Wide" (2 texts)
DT (204), WALYWALY WALYWAL2* WALYWAL3* CCKLSHLL* WATRWIDE*
ADDITIONAL: Alfred M. Williams, _Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry_, Houghton Mifflin, 1894, pp. 89-91, "Waly, Waly, gin Love by Bony / Lady Anne Bothwell's Lament" (1 text)
Roud #87
RECORDINGS:
Freeman Bennett, "Love is Lovely" (on PeacockCDROM) [one verse only]
Liam Clancy, "The Water is Wide" (on IRLClancy01)
Mobile Strugglers, "Trouble, Trouble's Followed Me All My Days" (on AmSkBa, classified there for want of a better place; it's really a collection of floaters, and could as easily go with "I Wish, I Wish/Love Is Teasing." It shares the verse "If I had wings like Noah's dove" with "Dink's Song," but not its distinctive chorus. - PJS)
Pete Seeger, "The Water is Wide" (on PeteSeeger18) (on PeteSeeger34) (on PeteSeeger47)
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Jamie Douglas" [Child 204] (lyrics)
cf. "Love Is Teasing"
cf. "Careless Love"
cf. "Died for Love"
cf. "The Butcher Boy" [Laws P24] (floating lyrics)
cf. "Dink's Song" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Oh, Johnny, Johnny" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Arthur's Seat" (lyrics: two verses)
cf. "The Water's Deep, Love, I Canna Wide" (floating lyrics)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
A Ship Came Sailing
When Cockle Shells Turn Silver Bells
NOTES: Some scholars consider this a degraded form of "Jamie Douglas" [Child 204], with which it shares several lyrics. It can hardly be denied that they are related. Since, however, "Waly Waly" has worn away to a purely lyric piece (and some even believe it to be the older of the two songs, which has provided a few chance lyrics to "Jamie Douglas"), it is my firm opinion that the two should be kept separate.
Paul Stamler considers at least some of the versions of "I Wish, I Wish/Love is Teasing" to belong here. To me, they look more like versions of "The Butcher Boy." Still, it shows you how lyric this piece has become.
Under the title "Forsaken," this is one of the handful of traditional songs in Palgrave's _Golden Treasury_ (item CXXXIII)- RBW
The two verses shared with "Arthur's Seat" are neither common floaters nor verses shared with "Jamie Douglas": one is the title verse ("Now Arthur-Seat shall be my bed ....") and the other the Martinmas wind reference ("Martinmas wind, when wilt thou blow ...). - BS
Must I Go Bound
DESCRIPTION: The singer laments, "Must I go bound and you go free." (S)he hears someone sing "that marriage was a pleasant thing," but "My marriage day soon turned to woe." The singer's spouse has scorned/abused the singer; the singer hopes for revenge
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1928 (Sam Henry collection)
KEYWORDS: marriage abuse betrayal
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
SHenry H218a/b, p. 386, "Must I Go Bound" (2 texts, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Butcher Boy" [Laws P24] and references there
cf. "My Blue-Eyed Boy" (lyrics, theme)
cf. "Died for Love (I)" (theme)
cf. "Yon Green Valley" (lyrics)
cf. "Love Has Brought Me To Despair" [Laws P25] (lyrics)
Notes: This, like "My Blue-Eyed Boy," is so close to "The Butcher Boy" that I almost listed them as one song. But where "The Butcher Boy" is relatively coherent, this is little more than a lament composed of floating verses (e.g. from "Waly Waly") and the complaint "I heard (a shepherd//fair maid) sing That marriage was a pleasant thing, [but] My (marriage/wedding) day soon turned to woe." So I've listed them separately -- but there may well be intermediate versions.
For further discussion, see the notes to "The Butcher Boy." - RBW
Child Ballad 204: Jamie Douglas
Child No.--Artist-- Title-- Album-- Year-- Length-- Have
204 Alfred Deller When Cockleshells Turn Silver Bells The Cruel Mother & Other English Ballads and Folk Songs 1998 1:43 Yes
208 Blue Blokes 3 Lord Allenwater Stubble 2008 No
204 Bob Blair Waly, Waly Reaching for the High, High Lands - Scots Songs & Ballads 2000 5:07 Yes
204 Brenda Wootton & John the Fish Cockleshells Pipers Folk 1968 2:35 Yes
204 Buffy Sainte-Marie Waly, Waly Little Wheel Spin and Spin 1966 3:31 Yes
204 Burl Ives Cockle Shells Folk Songs 2005 1:29 Yes
204 Burl Ives Waly Waly The Spoken Arts Treasury of American Ballads and Folk Songs 1970 1:46 Yes
204 Burl Ives Waly, Waly Coronation Concert - Recorded at Royal Festival Hall, London, England 1956 No
204 Burl Ives When Cockelshells Turn Silver Bells (Waly, Waly) Philco's Friendly Troubadour - 20 Vintage Radio Broadcasts 1946-47 2004 No
204 Burl Ives When Cockleshells Turn Silver Bells (Waly, Waly) Philco's Friendly Troubadour - 20 Vintage Radio Broadcasts 1946-47 2004 No
204 Carl Sandburg Waillie, Waillie! Carl Sandburg sings his American Songbag 1967 1:57 Yes
204 Cynthia Gooding Waly, Waly Faithful Lovers and Other Phenomena 1957 2:30 Yes
204 Dan Zanes Waillie, Waillie! Parades and Panoramas - 25 Songs Collected by Carl Sandburg for the American Songbag 2004 2:49 Yes
204 Dee Strickland Johnson Cockleshells (Waly, Waly) The Unquiet Grave and Other British Ballads 1976 No
204 Diane Taraz Waly, Waly A Silver Dagger - Exploring Women's History Through Folk Songs 2008 No
204 Dorothy Carter Wailee, Wailee Wailee, Wailee 1978 5:15 Yes
204 Ed McCurdy When Cockle Shells Turn Silver Folk Festival at Newport 1959, Vol. 3 1959 1:43 Yes
204 Ed McCurdy When Cockle Shells Turn Silver Bells The Newport Folk Festival 1959 2001 1:46 Yes
204 Ed McCurdy When Cockle Shells Turn Silver Bells Folk Song and Minstrelsy 1961 1:42 Yes
204 Ellen Gozion Waly, Waly Awake, Awake 2004 3:23 Yes
204 Elspeth Cowie Glenlyon Lament Naked Voice 2000 1:24 Yes
204 Eva Cassidy Waly Waly Eva By Heart 1997 4:45 Yes
204 Eva Cassidy Waly Waly Wonderful World 2004 4:39 Yes
204 Fiona Forbes & Ian McCalman Waly Waly The Music and Song of Edinburgh 1995 3:57 Yes
204 Grace Notes Cockleshells Anchored to the Time 2001 3:30 Yes
204 Grace Notes Cockleshells 20 2012 No
204 Hermes Nye O, Waly, Waly Ballads Reliques - Early English Ballads from the Percy and Child Collections 1957 2:26 Yes
204 Isabel Sutherland Waly Waly Isabel Sutherland 1970 No
204 James Mason Waly Waly The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
204 John Jacob Niles O Waly, O Waly An Evening with John Jacob Niles 1959 2:17 Yes
204 John Jacob Niles Oh Waly, Waly The Boone-Tolliver Recordings 2012 No
204 John Rutter & The Cambridge Singers O Waly, Waly Olde English Madrigals and Folk Songs at Ely Cathedral 1990 No
204 June Tabor Waly Waly Airs and Graces 1976 5:03 Yes
204 Kate Early Waly, Waly Mr. Versatility's Daughter - The Musical Celebration of a Heart 2007 No
204 Kathryn Mannyng Waly, Waly + Brittany .. 'Til Heartstrings Break 1998 7:47 Yes
204 Lorna Anderson O Waly, Waly Britten - the Folksong Arrangements 2000 No
204 Lorna Anderson & Haydn Trio Eisenstadt Scottish Songs for George Thomson I – Waly Waly Haydn Edition 2008 3:04 Yes
204 Lorna Anderson & Haydn Trio Eisenstadt Scottish Songs for William Whyte I – Waly Waly Haydn Edition 2008 3:32 Yes
204 Maria Anthony & Megan Hurt Waly Waly Thegither An' A' 2000 No
204 Marianne Faithfull Cockleshells North Country Maid 1990 No
204 Marianne Faithfull Cockleshells Live at the BBC [Marianne Faithfull] 2008 3:11 Yes
204 Marianne Faithfull Coquillages The Collection [Marianne Faithfull] 2005 3:41 Yes
204 Martin Simpson Lord Jamie Douglas Cool & Unusual 1997 2:31 Yes
204 Martyn Wyndham-Read Cockleshells Will Ye Go Lassie Go? 1965 No
204 Martyn Wyndham-Read Cockleshells Mussels on a Tree 1992 4:52 Yes
204 Martyn Wyndham-Read & No Man's Band Cockleshells Jackeroo 2008 No
204 Moira Craig Waly Waly Celtic Airs and Ballads - Traditional Love Songs and Laments 1996 1:53 Yes
204 Moira Craig Waly Waly Celtic Songs of Love 1997 No
204 Paul Clayton When Cockle Shells Make Silver Bells British Broadside Ballads in Popular Tradition 1957 3:11 Yes
204 Phil Cooper O Waly, Waly The Northland Waltz - Celtic Tunes Arranged for Guitar 2003 1:58 Yes
204 Phil Edwards Jamie Douglas 52 Folk Songs - Blue 2012 3:24 Yes
204 Raymond Crooke Jamie Douglas <website> 2007- 7:37 Yes
204 Richard Dyer-Bennet Cockle Shells A Richard Dyer-Bennet Concert - Folk Songs and Ballads 1962 No
204 Richard Dyer-Bennet When Cockleshells Turn Silverbells Richard Dyer-Bennet Vol. 2 2001 3:40 Yes
204 Robert Tear & Sir Philip Ledger O Waly Waly Britten: Winter Words - on This Island - Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo - Folk Song Arrangements - Canticles I-III 2002 No
204 Susan Reed Wailie, Wailie Susan Reed Sings Old Airs 1957 2:29 Yes
204 Ted Alevizos Walie Walie Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square 1959 1:51 Yes
204 Tom Glazer Waly Waly Olden Ballads 1952 1:03 Yes
204 Tossi Aaron Waly, Waly Tossi Sings Folk Songs and Ballads 1962 2:34 Yes
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
204. JAMIE DOUGLAS
Barry, Brit Bids Me, 469 ff. presents evidence that this song will be found in Maine. He prints a text (O Waly Waly) which derives from a song that Child, IV, 92 notes has shared stanzas with Jamie Douglas (Child A-M versions). Waly Waly appeared in Ramsay's Tea Table Miscellany, II, under the title Waly Waly Gin Love Be Bonny.
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The Water Is Wide
Rt - I Wish, I Wish ; Waly, Waly ; Foolish Young Girl ; There Is a Ship ; Fond Affection
Rm - Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Sm - Happy Land ; Intemperance
Snyder, Jerry (arr.) / Golden Guitar Folk Sing Book, Hansen, fol (1972), p118
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Amram, David. Tribute to Steve Goodman, Red Pajamas RPJ 004, LP (1985), trk# D.02
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Conger, Larry. September on the Mississippi, Highland House --, CD (1994), trk# 16
Davies, Bruce. Wi' Lichtsome He'rt, Rothes RR 007, CD (1997), trk# 3
Hester, Carolyn. Caroline Hester, Tradition TLP 1043, LP (1961), trk# A.02
Hester, Carolyn. Okun, Milt (ed.) / Something to Sing About, MacMillan, Bk (1968), p172
Hinton, Sam. Wandering Folk Song, Folkways FA 2401, LP (1967), trk# 4
Jane and Ireland. Jane and Ireland at Penland, Penland RSR-1027, LP (1979), trk# A.01
Killen, Lou and Sally. Bright Shining Morning, Front Hall FHR 006, LP (1975), trk# B.02
Kingston Trio. Make Way, Capitol T 1474, LP (1961), trk# B.03 (River Is Wide)
Kreek, Esther. Dulcimer Memories, Sampler 8912, Cas (1989), trk# A.06
Langstaff, John. Water Is Wide. American and British Ballads and Folksongs, Revels 2202, CD (2002), trk# 1 [1959] (O Waly Waly)
Leigh, Bonnie. Down in the Shady Grove, Maywind K56-03, CD (1998), trk# 26 (River Is Wide)
MacNeil, Madeline. Madeline MacNeil Sings Patchwork, Skyline DD 103, LP (197?), trk# 8
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Murray, Doug. Dulcimer Players News, DPN, Ser, 3/3 (1977)
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Paxton, Tom. One More Song. An Album for Club Passim, Philo PH 1197, CD (1996), trk# 13
Redpath, Jean. Love Is Teasin', PHC 1111, LP (1984), trk# B.05d
Reid, Harvey. Steel Drivin' Man, Woodpecker WP 107, Cas (1991), trk# B.01
Riddle, Almeda. Granny Riddle's Songs and Ballads, Minstrel JS 203, LP (1977), trk# B.05
Russell, Linda. Good Old Colony Days, Prairie Smoke PS 001, LP (1984), trk# B.08
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Solomon, Barry. Southland Sketches, Ridge Runner RRR 0021, LP (1980), trk# A.03
Stanley, Peter;, Judith Lang and Christopher Stanley. When You and I Were Young, Talkeetna 25008, CD (1999), trk# 10
Tarriers. Tarriers at the "Bitter End", Decca DL 4342/74342, LP (1963), trk# B.02
Unidentified Singer. Clayre, Alasdair (ed.) / 100 Folk Songs and New Songs, Wolfe, Sof (1968), p 19
White, Josh; Jr.. I'm on My Own Way, Mercury MG 21022, LP (1965?), trk# A.06 (River Is Wide)
Woods, Sylvia. Woods, Sylvia / Teach Yourself to Play the Folk Harp, Woods Books, sof (1978), p22
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Waly, Waly
Rt - Water Is Wide ; Jaimie Douglas ; Cockle Shells ; Must I Go Bound (While You Go Free) ; Love Is Teasing
At - Deep in Love
Friedman, Albert B. (ed.) / Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-S, Viking, sof (1963/1957), p104 [1740s]
Clayre, Alasdair (ed.) / 100 Folk Songs and New Songs, Wolfe, Sof (1968), p 30 (Waly, Waly, Gin Love Be Bonny)
Buchan, Norman (ed.) / 101 Scottish Songs, Collins, poc (1962), p 32
Leisy, James F. (ed.) / Folk Song Abecedary, Bonanza, Bk (1966), p235
Johnson, James & Robert Burns (eds) / Scots Musical Museum, Amadeus, Bk (1991/1853), #158 [1788]
Johnson, James & Robert Burns (eds) / Scots Musical Museum, Amadeus, Bk (1991/1853), #446 [1796]
Leach, MacEdward / The Ballad Book, Harper & Row, Bk (1955), p550 [1729] (Waly, Waly, Gin Love Be Bonny)
Aaron, Tossi. Tossi Sings Folk Songs and Ballads, Prestige International INT 13027, LP (196?), trk# B.04
Alevizos, Ted. Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square, Veritas, LP (1959), trk# B.05
Ambrosian Singers. Greensleeves and Other Favorite Folk Songs, RCA (Victor) CSC 313, LP (1965), A.01 (O Waly Waly)
Cox, Caroline. Reeves, James (ed.) / Idiom of the People, Norton, Sof (1958), p219/#108 [1905]
Freed, Susan. Edwards, Jay; and Robert Kelley / Coffee House Songbook, Oak, Sof (1966), p 33
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Gooding, Cynthia. Faithful Lovers and Other Phenomena, Elektra EKL 107, LP (1956), trk# B.05
Ives, Burl. Coronation Concert, Decca DL 8080, LP (1954), trk# A.02c
Luxon, Benjamin;, Bill Crofut & Friends. Two Gentlemen Folk, Telarc CD 84401, CD (1987), trk# 14
MacColl, Ewan. MacColl, Ewan / Folk Songs and Ballads of Scotland, Oak, Sof (1965), p76
Mogg, Elizabeth. Reeves, James (ed.) / Idiom of the People, Norton, Sof (1958), p219/#108 [1904-6]
Sainte-Marie, Buffy. Little Wheel Spin and Spin, Vanguard VRS 9211, LP (1966), trk# A.03
Simon Sisters. Winkin' Blinkin' and Nod, Kapp KL 1359, LP (1964), trk# B.05 (Waley, Waley)
Stone, Gladys. Kennedy, Peter (ed.) / Folksongs of Britain and Ireland, Oak, Sof (1984/1975), #149, p349 [1954] (Deep in Love)
Summers, Andrew Rowan. Asch, Moses (ed.) / 124 Folk Songs as Sung and Recorded on Folkways Reco, Robbins, fol (1965), p107 (O Waly Waly)
Tear, Robert; and Philip Ledger. Foggy Foggy Dew, Musical Heritage MHS 4792Y, LP (1983/1975), trk# A.04 (O Waly Waly)
Thomas, James. Reeves, James (ed.) / Idiom of the People, Norton, Sof (1958), p218/#108 [1906]
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I Wish, I Wish [Sh 273]
Rt - Water Is Wide ; I Am a Rover (and That's Well Known) ; Foolish Young Girl
Costello, Cecilia. Williams, R. Vaughan; & A. L. Lloyd (eds.) / Penguin Book of English Fol, Penguin, Sof (1959), p 53 [1951]
Kennedy, Norman. Ballads and Songs of Scotland, Folk Legacy FSS 034, LP (1968), trk# 3 (Student Boy Cam' Courting Me)
Langstaff, John. Langstaff, John / Lark in the Morn, Revels CD 2004, CD (2004), trk# 3 [1949-56] (I Wish I Was a Child Again)
Provance, F. P. (Fillmore Peter). Korson, George (ed.) / Pennsylvania Songs and Legends, Univ. of Penna., Bk (1949), p 48 [1943] (I Wish in Vain)
Robertson, Jeannie. Queen Among the Heather, Rounder 1720, CD (1998), trk# 2 [1953/11] (When My Apron Hung Low)
Sowder, Jake. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians II, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p383/# 273 [1918/08/17] (I Wish I Was a Child Again)
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Cockle Shells
Rt - Waly, Waly
Latest 101 Hootenanny Folk Song Favorites, Modern World Library No. 28, Fol (1963), P13 (Cockle Shells and Silver Bells)
Ives, Burl. Ives, Burl / A Collection of Ballads and Folk Songs, Decca, Pam (1946), p 3
Ives, Burl. Burl Ives Sings... In the Quiet of the Night, Decca DL 8247, LP (1956), trk# B.01
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Love Is Teasing
Rt - Waly, Waly
Conway, Pat. Conway, Pat / Soodlum's Irish Tin Whistle Tutor. Vol. 2, Soodlum, Sof (1980), p 9
Irish Servant Girl. Lomax, Alan / Folk Songs of North America, Doubleday Dolphin, Sof (1975/1960), p136/# 70 (Love Is Pleasing)
Posh Band. English, X-Tradition TMM 1912CD, CD (1999), trk# 15 (Love Is Pleasing)
Redpath, Jean. Folk Box, Elektra EKL 9001, LP (1964), trk# 69
Redpath, Jean. Songs of Love, Lilt and Laughter, Elektra EKL 224, LP (1963), trk# B.02
Redpath, Jean. Ballad Folk - from the BBC Scotland Television Series, BBC 22293, LP (1977), trk# A.01 [1970s]
Redpath, Jean. Love Is Teasin', PHC 1111, LP (1984), trk# B.05b
Ritchie, Jean. O Love Is Teasin', Elektra 60402-1-U, LP (1957), trk# 2.01 (Oh Love Is Teasing)
Stewart, Lucy. Clayre, Alasdair (ed.) / 100 Folk Songs and New Songs, Wolfe, Sof (1968), p 14
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Must I Go Bound (While You Go Free)
Rt - Waly, Waly
Rm - Broken Engagement
Silverman, Jerry / Folk Guitar - Folk Song, Scarborough Book, Sof (1983/1977), p 85
Leisy, James F. (ed.) / Folk Song Abecedary, Bonanza, Bk (1966), p236
Okun, Milt. Latest 101 Hootenanny Folk Song Favorites, Modern World Library No. 28, Fol (1963), p63
Okun, Milt; and Ellen Stekert. Traditional American Love Songs, Riverside RLP 12-634, LP (1956), trk# 1
Okun, Milt; and Ellen Stekert. Everybody Sing, Vol 3., Riverside RLP 1420, LP (196?), trk# A.03a
Reed, Susan. Susan Reed Sings Old Airs, Elektra EKL 126, LP (1961/1954), trk# B.05
Ritchie, Frank. Courtin' in Ireland, Request RLP 8060, LP (197?), trk# B.02
Sainte-Marie, Buffy. Many a Mile, Vanguard VSD7 9171, LP (1965), trk# A.01
Sainte-Marie, Buffy. Okun, Milt (ed.) / Something to Sing About, MacMillan, Bk (1968), p185
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Broken Engagement [Me II-E23]
At - Broken Heart ; They Were Standing By the Window ; Lost Love
Rm - Must I Go Bound (While You Go Free)
Bailey Brothers. Just as the Sun Went Down, Rounder 0056, LP (1979?), trk# 12
Carter, A. P.; Family. A. P. Carter's Clinch Mountain Ballads, Pine Mountain PMR 206, LP (1965/1956), trk# B.06
Carter Family. Original Carter Family in Texas - Vol 1, Old Homestead OHCS 111, LP (1978/1937ca), trk# 15
Carter Family. Carter Family on Border Radio, JEMF 101, LP (1970ca), trk# A.11 [1938-41]
Everhart, Clay; and the North Carolina Cooper Boys. Ballads and Breakdowns of the Golden Era, Columbia CS 9660, LP (1968), trk# A.05 [1931/10/27] (Standing by a Window)
Garland, Betty. American Folk Ballads, Folkways FA 2307, LP (1964), trk# A.06
McDowell, Louise. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume IV, Religous Songs and Others, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p283/#771 [1941/09/10]
Moore, Charlie. Country Music Memories. Vol. 1, Old Homestead OHS 90134, LP (198?), trk# A.01
Price, Bill & Betty. Bill and Betty Price, Rural Rhythm RRBP 239, LP (196?), trk# B.01
Vass, J. Ralph. Shellans, Herbert (ed.) / Folk Songs of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Oak, Sof (1968), p29 [1956/07/01]
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Folk Trax: DEEP IN LOVE - "Must I go bound or must I go free" - Overhears girl complaining about her false lover so she goes to the meadows to find a flower that will ease her mind but none does so she makes a bed of flowers - Alternative titles: APRON OF FLOWERS; PEGGY GORDON; O WALY WALY; UNFORTUNATE SWAIN; WATER IS WIDE - LAWS #P-25 ABBB 1957 p261 "Love has brought me to despair" - ROUD#60 - Cf CHILD #204 "Jamie Douglas" - GREIG-DUNCAN Coll 1995 vol 6 #1165 pp247-251 5var 12v/5m "My heart is sair" & #1156 p252 1v/m "Love it is pleasing" - BARING GOULD Ms #86 (a) Miss Octavia L hoare, Kimbolton, Cornwall (b) Mary Sackerey, Huckaby Bridge 1890 (c) Will Nichoils, Whitchurch 1891 (besides publ there are other collected versions as well as Logan, Garlands, Broadsides, Scots, Roxburgh etc) SOW #86 "A ship came sailing" Cornwall - BG-HITCHCOCK 1974 p96 "So deep in love" (as SOW) - SHARP-MARSON FSS 2 - Sel Ed 1 - Novello Schl Ser 2 - HUGHES ICS 1 1909 p68-9 "Must I go bound?" frag Co Derry 3v - HENRY SOP #218 "Johnny Johnny" (W & M versions) - JFSS 7:27 1923 p69-73 Hammond "Must I be bound" - JEFDSS 1954 p161 "The Unfortunate Swain" Article by J W Allen on "Waly Waly" with refs - REEVES IOP 1958 p38 "Waly Waly" - REEVES EC 1960 pp89-91 Hammond from Jacob Baker, Bere Regis, Dorset 1905 - PURSLOW MB 1965 p23 Hammond - BROCKLEBANK/KINDERSLEY DBFS 1966 p8 Hammond: J Pomeroy, Broadoak, Dorset "Must I be bound" - SEDLEY 1967 p160 "The Water is wide" & p125 "Must I be bound" - COPPER S&SB 1973 p219 2love" - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 p349 Copper from Gladys Stone, Fittleworth, Sussex 1954 --- COX FSS #142 "Maggie Goddon" - see also DIED FOR LOVE; DOWN IN THE MEADOWS; I AM A MAID THAT'S DEEP IN LOVE; SUMMER IS COME; WILL YE GANG, LOVE? -- Julia ADCOCK rec by PK, Watton, Norfolk 1950 7RTR-0009 "False Lover"/ 502 - Gladys STONE rec by Bob Copper, Fittleworth, Sussex 1954: RPL 22740/ 015 & 427 - Guy CARAWAN (with guitar) rec by PK London July 1957: 7"RTR-0499 "The Water is wide" - Jack LANGSTAFF (with piano): TRADITION TLP-1009 1957 "O Waly, Waly" (CJS) - Shirley COLLINS "The Ramblers" Skiffle Radio prog 1958 prod by Lomax: Ewan McCOLL, Peggy SEEGER with Bruce TURNER (clar), John COLE (harmonica) 7"RTR-0291/ CASS-30-1276 - KINGSTON TRIO: EMI T-1474 1961 "W is w" - RIPLEY WAYFARERS Derbsh: TRADITIONAL SOUND TSR-006 1971 - Cyril TAWNEY: ARGO ZFB-87 1973 Dorset (from Baring Gould) Cornwall - Sylvia MOORE Ensemble: 137 & 418 "W is w" - INN FOLK: 095 "W is w" --- Almeda RIDDLE rec by Jerry Epstein & Don Wade 1977: MINSTREL JD-203
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Second Hand Songs:
Recording: The Water Is Wide
Performed by Pete Seeger
First release On audio album American Favorite Ballads - Volume Two (1958)
Versions
Title Performer Release date Info
1 The Water Is Wide Pete Seeger 1958
2 The Water Is Wide Peggy Watson 1992
3 The Water Is Wide Priscilla Herdman 1994
4 The Water Is Wide Janet Chvatal & Scott Kritzer 1998
5 The Water Is Wide Indigo Girls, Jewel and Sarah McLachlan April 28, 1998
6 The Water Is Wide Charlotte Church 2001
7 The Water Is Wide Eva Cassidy 2003
8 The Water Is Wide Zrazy 2004
9 The Water Is Wide Paul McCandless May 18, 2004
10 The Water Is Wide Shione Yukawa July 20, 2005
11 The Water Is Wide Ardyth & Jennifer 2006
12 The Water Is Wide Órla Fallon January 10, 2006
13 The Water Is Wide Trinití June 2006
14 The Water Is Wide Steven Sharp Nelson October 10, 2006
15 The Water Is Wide Lorinda Jones and Bruce Adair with Kelsie Westfall 2007
16 The Water Is Wide Jo Lawry 2008
17 The Water Is Wide Rhonda Vincent January 8, 2008
18 The Water Is Wide Perla Batalla December 2008
19 Oh Shenandoah/The Water Is Wide The Tierney Sutton Band September 6, 2011
20 The Water Is Wide 2tone 2012
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LOVE IS TEASING (from Jean Redpath)
I wish, I wish, though I wish in vain,
I wish I were a maid again;
But a maid again I will never be
Till oranges grow on an apple tree.
CHORUS: For love is a teasing and love is pleasing
Like a jewel when first it's new;
But as it grows older, love grows colder,
And fades away like the morning dew.
When my apron, it hung low,
My true love would follow through wind and snow;
But now that my apron is to my knee
He cares no more what becomes of me. CHORUS
I wish, I wish that my babe were born
And dangling on my mother's knee
And I, poor girl, were dead and gone
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MUST I GO BOUND
from: Something to Sing About! - The Personal Choices of America's Folk Singers; Collected and arranged by Milton Okun, The Macmillan Company - Collier-Macmillan Ltd., London, 1968, p 184.
"Buffy Saint-Marie" , '…. For this collection Buffy has chosen a song of English origin, "Must I Go Bound," that has numerous versions. The poetry of the lyrics is among the most refined to found in any folk-art collection, as deft and subtle as the most polished work of a classical poet.'
Key of A 4/4
Must (A)I go bound while you go (E)free?
Must (E) I love one who won't love (A)me?
Must I then act the (A7) child-ish (D)part,
And (E7) love the one who'd break my (A) heart?
I put my finger to the bush
To pluck a rose of fairest kind,
The thorn it pierced me to a touch,
And so I left the rose behind.
I leaned my back against an oak.
I thought it was a trusty tree,
But first it bent and then it broke,
Just as my love proved false to me.
Oh, I'll go bound while you go free,
And I'll love one who won't love me,
And I will act the childish part,
And love the one who'd break my heart.
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Already in the 1820s and early 1830s a song called "Peggy Gordon" was published on American song-sheets: in New York and in Boston (available at the libraries of Brown University, RI and the New York Historical Society, here quoted from Mudcat Discussion Board, posted by user Taconicus on 23.12.2010):
Sweet Peggy Gordon, you are my darling,
Come set you down upon my knee,
And tell to me the very reason,
Why I am slighted so by thee.
I am deep in love, but I dare not show it,
My heart is lock'd up in thy breast;
I will plainly let the whole world know it,
A troubled mind can take no rest.
I'll lean my head on a cask of brandy,
That is my fancy I do declare;
For when I'm drinking, I'm always thinking,
How shall I gain that young lady fair.
I wish my love was one red rose,
And planted down by yonder wall,
And I myself was one drop of dew,
That in her bosom I might fall.
I wish my love and I were sailing,
As far from land as one could see;
Yes, sailing over the deepest waters,
Where love and care would not trouble me.
For the seas are deep, and I cannot wade them,
And neither have I wings to fly;
I wish I had some jolly boatman,
To ferry over my love and I.
I wish I was in Caropage,
And my sweet girl along with me;
Sweet Peggy Gordon, you are my darling;
Sweet Peggy Gordon, I'd die for thee.
I wish I was in Covel's Castle,
Where the marble stones are as black as ink,
Where the pretty girls they all adore me
I'll sing no more until I drink.
Here we find three verses known from the longer version of "I'm Often Drunk" including the one starting with "the seas are deep, and I cannot wade them [...]". It seems this song was very popular. It was later also published in Everybody's Songster (1859, Roud ID S187124) and the Old Armchair Songster (1860, Roud ID S302091). I haven't been able to check these publications and can't say if it's exactly the same text. But they also start with the line "Sweet Peggy Gordon, you are my darling". In 1880 New York publisher Pauline Lieder brought out a song called "Sweet Maggie Gordon". This was in fact an abbreviated version of the old "Peggy Gordon" with some minor changes but the three verses can also be traced back to the first edition of the British broadside. On the sheet music (available at Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, Library of Congress) composer and songwriter Ned Straight is only credited as the arranger so the tune may be older and perhaps even the one used for the original "Peggy Gordon":
27. "Sweet Maggie Gordon", arranged by Ned Straight, from sheetmusic, Pauline Lieder, New
I wish my love and I were sailing,
As far from land as far can be,
Far, far across the deep blue water,
Where I'd have none to trouble me.
[Refrain]:
Sweet Maggie Gordon you are my bride,
Come sit you down upon my knee,
And tell to me the very reason,
Why I am slighted thus by me.
The sea is deep, I can't swim over,
Neither have I the wings to fly,
But I will hire some jolly sportsman,
To carry o'er my love and I.
I wish I had a glass of Brandy,
The reason I will tell to thee,
Because when drinking I am thinking,
Does my true love remember me.
A version from West Virginia with more or less the same words was collected by J. H. Cox in 1918 ("Maggie Goddon", Cox, No. 142, p. 424, "learned forty years ago"). Variants called "Peggy Gordon" with more and different verses were recorded in Canada since 1943 (Roud # 2280; see the versions on Alan Mills and Jean Carignan, Songs, Fiddle Tunes and a Folk-Tale from Canada, Folkways FW 03532, 1961 and Maritime Folk Songs: from the Collection of Helen Creighton, Folkways FW 04307). In another song from West Virginia called "Youth And Folly" we find variant forms of three verses known from "Peggy Gordon". Another one - "O love is warming [...]" - is clearly derived from "I'm Often Drunk" (collected in 1916, Cox, No. 141, p. 422). The informant had "learned it from his father":
Youth and folly make youngsters marry,
And when they're married they must obey;
For many a bright and sunshiny morning
Has turned to a dark and rainy day.
O love is warming, O love is charming,
Love's quite handsome while it's new!
But as love grows older, love grows colder,
And fades away like the morning dew.
It was all in the sweet month of April,
While summer flowers were in their bloom,
Trees were budding, sweet birds were singing;
Times ain't with me as they have been.
Great Jehovah, have mercy on me!
My comrades, come to set me free;
I never courted but one fair lady;
Her name was Polly, she told me.
Polly, O Polly, you are my darling!
Come set yourself down awhile by me,
And tell me the very reason
Why I was slighted so by thee.
I am in love, I dare not own it,
The very pain lies on my breast;
I am in love, and the whole world knows it,
That a troubled mind can find no rest.
I wish to God I never had seen you,
Or in my cradle I had died;
To think as nice a young man as I am
Should be in love and be denied.
I wish I was on some stormy ocean,
As far from land as I could be;
And sailing for some better country
Where there no grief could trouble me.