| Author | Topic: Add: Thousands or More | |
| dmcg | Posted - 02 Mar 03 - 11:07 am | |
Thousands or More The time passes over more cheerful and gay Since we've learnt a new act to drive sorrows away Sorrows away, sorrows away, sorrows away Since we've learnt a new act to drive sorrows a way. Bright Phoebe awakes so high in the sky With her red rosy cheeks and he spark-e-ling eye Spark-e-ling eye, spark-e-ling eye, spark-e-ling eye With her red rosy cheeks and her spark-e-ling eye. If you ask for my credit you?ll find I have none With my bottle and friends you will find me at home Find me at home, find me at home, find me at home With my bottle and friends you will find me at home. Although I'm not rich and although I'm not poor I'm as happy as those that?s got thousands or more Thousands or more, thousands or more, thousands or more I'm as happy as those that?s got thousands or more. Source: Copper R, 1976, Early to Rise, William Heinemann Ltd Notes: Songs in this book by Bob Copper are simply listed as "Songs from Rottingdean". I believe it to be from the Copper Family Songbook. Database entry is here. | ||
| Malcolm Douglas |
Posted - 02 Mar 03 - 05:14 pm | |
Roud 1220 Only two traditional versions are listed at present which don't come from the Copper Family; one recorded by Peter Kennedy at Boscastle in 1975 and another, with a different first line, in Mervyn Plunkett's MS collection (text only). Kennedy (Folksongs of Britain and Ireland p.631) comments: "This song is one of our finest drinking songs, yet it has not appeared in any of the well-known published collections. It has much in common with and may well be a version of Drive the Cold Winter Away which William Chappell included in National English Airs (1838) [and in Popular Music of the Olden Time, 1859, I, p.193], the tune of which appeared in Playford's English Dancing Master (1650-90). The song was also published in D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy (1707) [and 1719-20, IV, p.241]." I'd tend to treat Kennedy's comments with a degree of caution in this case. Yes, it does appear in the Songbook. | ||