Like will I go, love will I stay, Like shall I go other way
W]hy do you name this a good looking sleep in which nothing lies with the however, a servant housemaid a servant maid altho’ she become happy’s the man you to definitely enjoyeth thee
My] love’s throughout the Condition from Armagh and i me an effective way-off Oh basically had their own in the State out of off I’d rather than 10 thousand pound
Roy Palmer designs several versions of this song within his article ‘The Weaver for the Love’, Folk-music Journal , 1977, however, I really don’t consider the guy lay one thing to each other correctly. Brand new broadside ballad “Tend to brand new Weaver and Charity the brand new Chambermaid” Rawlinson range, Bodleian, plus the Pepys Ballads , III, 132, 1987, is actually published from the Phillip Brooksby, 1671-1685 (their address after that change). Brand new track cited toward broadside are “To help you a great the fresh track; Otherwise, I’m an excellent weaver by my personal trade. Otherwise, Now i kostnad fГ¶r en postorderbrud am bound, &c,”. Not one of those sounds is known.
Currently i’ve simply eighteenth century copies off “Tend to the fresh Weaver” (Holloway and you can Black’s Later on English Broadside Ballads , I, #123, “The latest Weaver and his sweetheart” (Palmer’s D text), and you may “#38 “The brand new Fair Maid’s desire to understand their unique A-b-c” (Palmer’s C text, listed below). However, In my opinion they were extra to one another to form the new seventeenth century broadside. Palmer’s printing of your own broadside text message doesn’t note in which you to definitely track brake system off and almost every other starts. The initial 7 passages was “Have a tendency to this new Weaver” while the history several is “The young Maid’s focus.” I append “Beauties Caution Part” 2nd, where we discover modified verses of your own “Maids desire to understand their unique A b c” an additional seventeenth century broadside ballad.
My personal love are ill and you will wish perish and you can an excellent sorry man that go out try We but now the latest weaver enjoyes his satisfaction and you may marry’d . . . . . . so you can thee servant lass a slave lass regardless if she getting happy’s the person one enjoyeth shee
Closest toward text message we have found Palmer’s D text, and that seem to be an up-date of these more than. The verse starting out “My personal like is actually ill and you can want to die” isn’t out-of-place if an individual knows that this lady has ‘green problems,’ the fresh new cure for that has been sexual intercourse. Comprehend the very early ballad “Green Disorder Despair” starting out “Been already been my nice and you may bonny that” provided more than.
The new Fair Maid’s desire to see their A-b-c
I am a beneficial sailor out-of no trade, Very long time We courted a fairly maid, Just in case I am unable to their rather have winnings, I am going to off to water, away to sea I am going to go again.
We ran unto my personal love’s chamber door, In which oftentimes I have been just before My love she arose and you can i’d like to in the, And off to bed, and you will away to bed she ran once more.
I rejected new holand sheet sets, To see their particular beauty one another okay and you may clean and a small lower than truth be told there I did so spy Two pillars of, a couple pillars out-of light ivory.
She sigh’d and you can sobb’d and therefore performed said, Why try We born, as to why is I born so you’re able to perish a housemaid.
Is ther never ever an early on man have a tendency to me reveal, Particular characters out-of my criss-cross row [alphabet That we may already know also he, Particular letters out-of my personal A b c.
We put my pen to the their particular hands, I quote her use it within her order, She understood complete well in which I became to go; Therefore in the near future she learn’t very soon she learn’t her criss-cross row.
A version of this track thus garbled that it does not appear to have started approved is in Clear and you can Karples English Folksongs regarding the Southern area Appalachains , II, p. 119, “Ibby Damsel.”
