Recordings & Info 96. The Gay Goshawk
CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
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
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud No. 61: The Gay Goshawk (22 Listings)
Alternative Titles
The Gay Goss Hawk
Gay Goshawk, The [Child 96]
DESCRIPTION: An English lass is forbidden to marry the Scot she loves. He sends a message by his goshawk. She asks to be buried in Scotland should she die. This granted, she feigns death. Her coffin is taken to where her lover waits; they are reunited
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1783/1799 (GordonBrown/Rieuwerts)
KEYWORDS: love separation death burial trick reunion
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES (11 citations):
Child 96, "The Gay Goshawk" (8 texts)
Bronson 96, "The Gay Goshawk" (2 versions, though the second, from Christie, is described by Bronson as "padded out with a second strain.")
GordonBrown/Rieuwerts, pp. 120-127, "The gay gos hawk" (2 parallel texts plus a photo of the badly-transcribed tune; also a reconstructed tune on p. 268)
GlenbuchatBallads, pp. 212-217, "The Goss Hawk" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 300-303, "The Gay Goshawk" (1 text)
Flanders-Ancient3, pp. 43-44, "The Gay Goshawk" (1 fragment, with lyrics typical of this piece but too short identify with certainty)
OBB 60, "The Gay Goshawk" (1 text)
PBB 43, "The Gay Goshawk" (1 text)
Gummere, pp. 265-269+358, "The Gay Goshawk" (1 text)
DBuchan 17, "The Gay Goshawk" (1 text, 1 tune in appendix) {Bronson's #1}
HarvClass-EP1, pp. 69-73, "The Gay Goss-hawk" (1 text)
Roud #61
Child Collection-Child Ballad 096: The Gay Goshawk
Child --Artist --Title --Album --Year --Length --Have
096 Ffynnon Goshawk Celtic Music from Wales 2002 3:00 Yes
096 Pete Morton Gay Goshawk Trespass 1998 7:58 Yes
096 Pete Morton The Gay Goshawk Another Train 2001 No
096 Raymond Crooke The Gay Goshawk <website> 2007- 9:43 Yes
096 Stone Angel The Gay Goshawk Stone Angel 1974 7:07 Yes
Excerpt from The British Traditional Ballad in North America
by Tristram Coffin, from the section A Critical Biographical Study of the Traditional Ballads of North America
96. THE GAY GOSHAWK
Reed Smith prints this song among his list of American survivals of the Child ballads. His reference is to a text in the Child MSS, taken from an Irish woman in Iowa. See SFLQ, I, 52, 911. Check also the Vermont Historical Society, Proceedings, N. S., VII, 73 98.
Flanders-Ancient3, pp. 43-44, "The Gay Goshawk" (1 fragment, with lyrics typical of this piece but too short identify with certainty) The Gay Goshawk (Child 96) The stanza Edwards recalled is the first stanza of Child A. However, he is reported to have stated that the song "sets forth a romance between a Frenchman and an English girl."