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Finnegan's Wake" (Roud 1009) is an Irish-American comic folk ballad, first published in New York in 1864. [1] [2] [3] Various 19th-century variety theatre performers, including Dan Bryant of Bryant's Minstrels, claimed authorship but a definitive account of the song's origin has not been established. An earlier popular song, John Brougham's "A ...
This may be a punning reference to Reading, as a slip-song version c. 1790 among the Madden songs at Cambridge University Library has 'In Reading town, where I was bound.' London town and Dublin town are used in other versions. [27] [28] The ballad often opens by establishing a festive time frame, such as May, Martinmas, or Lammas. The versions ...
They took him up to Portsmouth, To a place where was known, From there up to London, To the place where he was born. They took out his bowels, And stretched out his feet, And they balmed his body, With roses so sweet. Six dukes stood before him, Twelve raised him from the ground, Nine lords followed after him, In their black mourning gown.
The refrains are sung in all stanzas, but they are only shown here for the first. There were three rauens [a] sat on a tree, downe a downe, hay downe, hay downe, [b] There were three rauens sat on a tree, with a downe, There were three rauens sat on a tree, They were as blacke as they might be. With a downe, derrie, derrie, derrie, downe, downe.
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A lord tells Fair Annie to prepare a welcome for his bride, and to look like a maiden. Annie laments that she has borne him seven sons and is pregnant with the eighth; she cannot look like a maiden. She welcomes the bride but laments her fate, even wishing her sons evil, that they might be rats and she a cat.
Maria Wiik, Ballad (1898) A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in Australia, North Africa, North America and South America.
Many traditional versions of the ballad survived long enough to be recorded by folklorists and ethnomusicologists. Most traditional English versions are called "Henry, My Son". Dorset traveller Caroline Hughes sang a version to Peter Kennedy in 1968 [ 10 ] and another to Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger in the early 1960s which can be heard online ...