| Author | Topic: Add: The Hexhamshire Lass | |
| dmcg | Posted - 16 Nov 03 - 07:09 pm | |
Hey for the buff and the blue Hey for the cap and the feather Hey for the bonny lass true That lives in Hexhamshire Through by the Saiby Syke An over the moss and the mire I'll go to see my lass, Who lives in Hexhamshire Her faither lov'd her well Her mother lov'd her better; I love the lass mysel', But alas! I cannot get her. Oh, this love, this love; Of this love I'm weary! Sleep, I can get none For thinking on my deary! My heart is like to break, My bosom is on fire, So well I love the lass That lives in Hexhamshire. Her petticoat is silk And plaited round with siller, Her shoes are tied with tape She'll wait till I go till her. Were I where I would be I would be beside her But here a while I must be Whatever may betide her. Hey for the thick and the thin Hey for the mud and the mire And hey for the bonny lass That lives in Hexhamshire. Source: John Stokoe, 1899, Songs and Ballads of Northern England, Walter Scott Ltd, London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Notes: I seem not to have made a note where this was collected. I will fix it next visit to the Vaughan Willams library, (unless others can provide the information before then.) Database entry is here. | ||
| Malcolm Douglas |
Posted - 16 Nov 03 - 09:40 pm | |
Roud 3182. This seems to have been reproduced from Bruce and Stokoe's earlier Northumbrian Minstrelsy (1882); a couple of words have been changed. No indication was given as to source. There is some related discussion at the Mudcat: Hexhamshire Lass. There is some textual and melodic relationship with the Aye Waukin O / Leaboy's Lassie group of songs. See Bruce Olson's site for texts and references: http://users.erols.com/olsonw//SONGTXT1.HTM#AYWAKIN | ||