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FIFTEEN FOLK-SONGS

FROM NEWFOUNDLAND

collected and edited by

MAUD KARPELES

with piano accompaniments by

R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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INTRODUCTION

Cecil Sharp's discoveries in the Appalachian 1\Iountains led him to believe, quite rightly, that folk-songs of English origin were to be found in other pans of the American continent. Newfoundland. our oldest colony. \\here ninety-eight per cent of the population is of Bntish descent-mainly from the \Vest of England and Ireland-seemed to him the most promising field for research. He intended tp visit the island in 1918 and again in 1925; but the 1918 visit had to be given up owing to lack of fund'-, and he died in 192-+. I had hoped to accom­pany him and help him with the collecting, as I had done in the Appalachian !vfountains; but as this \vas not possible. I decided to do what I could by myself. During 1929 and 1930 I paid two visits to Newfoundland. each la~ting about six weeks, and noted two hundred songs (including variants), from which the thirty songs in the_e two volumes have been selected.

Newfoundland's main industry is fishing. There are but few to\vns outside St. John's, and the people live along the shores, or on islands off the coast. in small settlements, or 'outports', as they are called. The interior consists of big lakes, rivers, forests and moorland-·barrens'-and is practically uninhabited . The coast-line is an irregular one. Great bays and indentations penetrate the country, sometimes to an e~tent of eighty to ninety miles, and thus transport by land is difficult and. in many parts of the island, impossible. Mail-steamers ply the coast, calling once a week, or once a fortnight, at the more important ports, but some of the smaller places can only be reached by open motor-boat.

It was from the people in these outports-nearly all fishermen and their families-that I noted the songs. My quest seemed a strange one to them, particularly when I had disposed of the idea that I was on the stage or the agent of a gramophone company. They were convinced that I should make a lot of money out of the songs. 'If I could learn to do that I should never have to do another day's fishing'. said one singer after I had written down his song and had sung it back to him. However. they did not grudge me my supposed reward, or expect to share in it, and v-:hen once they sa\V that their songs \vere appreciated, they were ahvays ready to sing. In fact. it \Vould be impossible to find a kindlier or friendlier people than the Newfoundlanders. \VhereYer I went I ·was in~tantly welcome, although I came as a complete stranger \\ithout any introduction. Everyone was delighted to meet an Englishwoman and to hear \Vhat the people •at home' were doing and thinking.

The original settle'Tnent of Newfoundland is very much older than that of the Appalachian 1\-1ountains, but the island has not had the same immunity from modern civilisation, for the sea does not i<;olate to the same extent as does a mountain range. Consequently, folk-songs were not so easily found as in the Appalachians. There, old and young knew the folk-songs and sang but little else; but in Newfoundland the ·old' songs were fast going out of fa ~hion. Fe\\. ofthe young people had learned them, and the old people had usually to search their memories in order to recall them.

The folk-singer does not. of course. distinguish bet\,·een traditionnl and compo~cd songs, and many is the time I have tra cked do\vn a si nge r \\·ith a great reputation for old songs. only to be regaled with '\\' hen you a nd I ,,·ere young. 1\Iaggie', or similar sentimental ditties. I had to C'\plain that I wanted son~;;; \\ hich hnd ne\·er been \\ ritten dO\\·n. or that had no ·mu~ic'. \\ hich to the folk~-singcr means the printed air. Jn \iew of this explanation. a ~ingcr on coming to the end of hi s \Try big repertory of drm\ ing-room son g~. ~ ill of\\ hich I had rcj~cted, remarked wearily. but sympathetically, '\\'ell, all I can think is

that some other young lady must have come along before you, and got all the songs printed otT'.

The state of the traditional folk-song in Newfoundland is probably very much what it was in England at the end of last century, both as regards its practice and its character. The proportion of modal tunes appears to be higher than in Engbnd. but the pentatonic scale. which is a marked feature of the Appalachian tunes, is not found. In the main. the characteristics of the New­foundland tunes are similar to those of the English tunes, and many of the individual sonas bear a close resemblance to the En~lish variants.

The Newfo~1dland songs are. in fact, a good exari1ple of the persistence of tradition. The singer of ·Lord Bateman' expressed to his wife his astonishment that I. a stranger. should be so much like themselves; but in listening to the familiar story of the ·noble lord' and his 'young Sophia', with the 'proud young porter', and the bride's mother 'who was never heard to speak so free', it was even more astonishin~ for the stranger to recall that over two thousand miles of ocean lay between Newfoundland ~and Somerset.

Newfoundland has not brought forth any new type of tune, but it has, in my opinion, produced a number of songs and ballads which have an individual beauty and are in themselves sufficiently distinctive to merit publication. And it is my hope that lovers of English folk music \Viii find in these volumes a worthy addition to the vast store of treasures which have already been gathered by Cecil Sharp and others.

I would in conclusion thank the many kind friends who have helped me. In particular, I would acknowledge my gratitude to the singers who so patiently sang to me, and I would express the hope that this publication will help to restore to them their confidence in the value and beauty of the songs which have in the past afforded them so much delight.

MAUD KARPELES. London, 1934.

The above introduction was written for the original collection called Folk Songs from Newfoundland, from which these fifteen arrangements have been taken.

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CONTENTS

BA LLA DS

I. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Sweet William's Ghost The Cruel l\.1other The Gypsy Laddie The Bloody Gardener The Bonny Banks of Virgie-o Earl Brand Lord Akeman The Lover's Ghost

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NOTES

She's like the Swallow The Maiden's Lament Proud Nancy The Morning Dew The \\'inter's gone and past The Cuckoo Young Floro

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hopes to meet his own true heart's de - light. He milk - white dove came perch - ing round his face, And with

young man fol- lowed af - ter her with speed. This young have you lost your love as I have mine? When __

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searched the gar - den_ round but __ no __ true love he found Till the · bat ter- ing wings sweet all round_ this young man's fe et , But_ -- so __ a -man he called a f -ter her with his hea r t_ so full of woe, Un- - ~

down from a tree_ s o __ tall, down_ on __ her grave d id f:lll, She_

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THE BONNY BANKS OF VIRGIE-0

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EARL BRAND

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.. 1 A - rise, a-rise, King Hen - said . Or

[2] rise, a- rise, my sev-en sons bold, And

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are_ you_ not at home? A - rise and take care of' your put_ on your ar - mour so bright. It shall ne - ver be said that a

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d augh - te.r of mine Shall be mar-ried to a lord_ or a knight. 3 A -se\· - en bro-thers bold And your fa-ther in the mea-dow where he

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held the white steed, She 4 La-dy b-ia.r - g'ret she rose and [5] hand, ease your hand, Lord (6] choice, choose your choice, La- dy

Ro-bert, she cries. For your Mar-g'ret, he said, \.'\'ill you

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ther that lo~er dear. 5 Ease your dear I'll ne'er_ get more. 6 Choose your

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sound-ing of his bu - gle o pen the door, d ear

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La-dy Mar- g'ret down__ by my side ThAt the sound - er and bet-ter I may

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LORD AKEMAN (LORD 13---\.TI~.\\A~)

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-.1 ' t y r r l I Lord Ake - man was a __ no- blc lord, A ' [2] he sailed East and_ he sailed \Vest Un - I [3] side of the pris - on there grew a tree; It [4] gaol- er_ had one_ on - ly daugh-ter, The [5] you got_ bous - es, have you got land? Does ;

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board of a ves-sel For-eign coun - tries to put in pris-on Un - til his life was most

round his mid-dle Un - til his life '-''as al -fa - thers pris - on, And_ said Lord Ake - man she'd a - ny fair maid-en ~ho_ from this pris- on woulc! set

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long_ years they_ made a vow, 0 long_ years have_ passed and o'er, And

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all __ to a - ny la - dy Who_ wed __ with no 0 - tber wo- man, I won't up __ her mos - quey cloth- ing, And she there~ asked the proud young port - er. I __ yes, __ says the proud young port - er, He's just

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would set me free . 7 0 in. II Go no 0 - ther man. 8 0

man she'd go see . 9 0 un- to me tell . 10 She a young bride I verses 6,7, 8 & 9 !1 Verse 10 ...,..-..... -,. -

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of the best b~t- tle of wine, And_ bend ed knees on his fell he, Say - ing: them S-..~e has one of got three, And the

broke his es three, Say - ing: sword in piec known ___ to speak _/l _1f nev - er so _...... free, ~. " Say - ~

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Are you_

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THE LOVER'S GHOST ~~

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tapp'd at the win - dow so low. This_ fair maid a - rose and she

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5 Where !"' your soft bed of would ne - ver be day. __ IS

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down, my love, And where is your white down, my love, The sea is my white

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t1 where is the fair [6J long hungry worms

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sleep ev - 'ry night in t h.:

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seas they do run dry And the hard rocks they melt with the sun. __

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I SHE'S LIKE THE SWALLOW f

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She's 1 She's like the swal-low that flies so high_ 2 'Twas out in the gar- den this fair maid did .go. A -3 Its out of those ro - ses she made a b.:d. A

4 She's like the swal-low that flies ~0 high . She',; f), ( I I - --

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~ like the riv-er that runs dry , She's like the shine the lee shore, I nev-er ~un - on

-pick-ing the beau-ti-ful prim- e - rose; The more she plucked the mor.: she pulled Un-S(O - ny pil - low for her head .. She laid her down. no word did say, Un-like the riv-er that nev-er runs dry, She's like the sun- shine on the lee shore, 1

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-til she got_ her a - per -on fulL -til this fair_ maid's heart did break.

love my love_ and love is no more. I Last time f), - .- I I --- ,- --1":\

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10.

THE MAIDEN'S LAMENT

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si · - lentsweetsha -dy grove, I- heard a maid -en mak-ing sad la-ment. She cried: A ·

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tJ I - ~------· --las,_ I have lost my love. 2 0 love is like an un-quench-!:1~

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PROUD NANCY

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2 0 Nan - cy, my lovc: 3 To mar - ry you in c

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eve - ning all in __ the month of May, ___ The trees v>ere in_ fu L Nan - cy. 0 won't_ you mar - ry me? I've got no store of

fl l bloom of youth, I can_ do no such thing,-- But since ~~-e got_ you~ ,__

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tull - iov~ blos - som and- the mea - dows in gay, __ I fell in witL

rich - es . but_ I have got love for thee._ There's rich - er men tha"'

f) l own con- sent ,_ sure I can dance or sing __ 11-n fit - ted f o r s o r::.

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Nan - cy: she"s._ the girl a - don.·. She is my joy_ and [2] what I am._ but none could love_ you so. If I had guld_ as

f) FJJ rich - er gent. so I pray you no":._. be gone. 0 rich-es will suit_ me - - -~

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t) ... .._____.., - -41- 4- ~~ _... ~ fan - cy. How can_ I love her more?_ -cline::'_

moun - tains it would be yours al - so. ___ bet - ter for love_ will soon de-

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it"s 4 - cy, my - cy, 5 The space of six months af - ter this 6 I wrote ~er back an ans - '\Ver all

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.._..... . now_ Ill take my leave,_ Nor will I mourn for Nan - cy. she"s- a fair_ one changed her mind- She wrote a lov - ing let - ter_ and in a most scorn - ful way, __ Say-ing:Nan ~y, o __ lm:e Nan - CY,- don't

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I" v ll -[4] girl that will not grieve._ qu_ite bro - ken heart - ed._ it's [5] hoped I would prove kind,_ Say-ing:What lve said_ I"m sor - ry for. $0 [6] think no more of roe;--_ For Ive a - oo-ther more suit - a - ble_ b~

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plain for to __ be seen. But will I moum for Nan - cy, or pray \:ou now_ for - give, And ~ant

me __ )our fa - vour in ta - en of __ your place. Ill et you know can dance or sing if I

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tJ '-.__...; • ~ .. -*...:___;p ~· • ----we ax:...... the wil - low green?_ face __ heart and hand to llve. __ nev - er see your

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J1 I j ]1 4~J l I r v p v 4¥:=1 Don·t nev - er spite_ your first true love for the

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sake of his pov - cr - ty. For rich - cs they_ will wi- thcr a- way and your ~I I

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MORNING DEW

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THE WINTER'S GONE AND PAST

f} Andante

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X The_ win _..:--ter's gone and 2 I'll put 00 a cap of 3 The_ iv- o- ry I will

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past and the come at last, And the black and bind chains a - round my neck, And gold wear, and I'll comb __ down my hair, And I'll

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' dress in the vel - vet so green. Straight -

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a n d are low [2) this I'll un - der - take for my own true lov - er's

,?J- w:: I will re - pair for the Cur - ragh of Kil -• ~ ·~,._

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14.

THE CUCKOO

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flies, And the more she sings Cuck- 00 The_ sum - mer draws

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sor- row, grief and_ woe; But my bless - ings at - tend you Wher-

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YOUNG FLORO

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I As_ I rov- ed out_ one morn-ing in Spring, To 3 To_ wed a young shep-herd, kind sir, I 'm too young. To

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Q) ---hear the larks whis-tle and the night- in-gales sing, 0 green grow the_ rush- es all wed a youn g shep-herd my_ time is not come. I'll first be a_ ser-vant un-

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co- vered w ith young, And small birds all_ a-round me how joy-ful they sound. - til I'm t w en-ty- on e, And t h en vre will get mar-ried if love fol-lows on.

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tJ and -I my_ Flo-ro, my_ Flo- ro and I? I will go to young Flo - ro and

wrote her a_ let-ter to_ know her in - tent. The ans-wer she_ sent me : I ' ll

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this I will say: o _ let us get mar- ried, love, men-t ion the day. live a sin-gle life, For I nev- er in - tend to be a . poor shep-herd's wife.

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think of love-ly Flo- ro that I'll ne'er see no more. My heart is en-snared with her

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NOTES

Publications referred to are thus nbbre\·iated:

Appalachians = English Folk-Songs fro'n the Southern Appalachians. Cecil J. Sharp, ed. !vlaud Karpeles. Oxford University Press, 1932. 2 vols.

Clri.'d = The English and ScoTtish Popular Ba!!ads. F. J. Child. Houghton, Miffien & Co., Boston, 1882-93. 5 vols.

F.S.S.J. = Journal of the Folk-Song Society, London, 1399-1931. 8 vols.

Greenleaf= Ballads and Sea Songs of NeH:foundland. E. D. Greenleaf and G. Y. l'vfansficld. Harvard University Press, 1933.

Joyce = Old Irish Folk ldusic and Songs. P. W. Joyce. Longman, London, 1909.

Last Leaves = Last LeaH'S of Traditional Ballads and Ballad Airs. Gavin Grieg and Alex. Keith. The Buchan Club, Aberdeen, 1925.

Maine = British Ballads from Maine. P. Barry, F. H. Eckstorm, M. W. Smyth. Yale University Press, 1929.

1. Sweet \Villiam 's Ghost Sung by 1\1r. 1\1ichael Carrol at Placentia. The text, \vith a few verbal alterations. is as sung by 1\1rs. Emma Boone and her son, 1v1r. John I\1cCabe, at North River, Concep­tion Bay.

The ballad is a popular one in Newfoundland, and l noted variants. The text, without tune, is also gi\en in Greenleaf, N ·o. 9. For other versions, see Child, No. 77.

2. The Cruel 1\-lother Sung by 1\frs. Theresa Corbett at Conception Harbour. Stanzas 5, 6, and 9-12 are as sung by !\Irs. Corbett and the rest are collated from other versions. I noted ten variants. Two versions (one tune) are also given in Greenleaf, No. 6. For other versions, see Child, No. 20, and Appalachians, No. 10.

3. The Gypsy Laddie Sung by ~Irs. 1\Iargaret Quilter at Harbour Grace, Conception Bay. The text is collated from different versions, but is mainly that given by ~-fr. P:1trick Hunt at Dunsville, Placentia. I noted four versions of the tune and another is given in Green­leaf, No. 16. For other versions, see Child, No. 200, and Appalachians, No. 33.

4. The Bloody Gardener Sung by 1\1rs. 1\1ay (Jas.) 1\fcCabe at North River, Conception Bay. The text is practically unaltered, except for a slight alteration in the second half of the first stanza, which has been made for the sake of clearness.

A more sophisticated broadside version with twenty-se\ en stanzas is to be found in the Harvard UniYersity Libr~uy in a fourteen-volume collection of ballads printed by Catnach, Bebbington, Ryle. etc. This is quoted in Br~:tnd's Popular Antiqui­ties, Vol. iii, p. 217 (1893 ed.). Another similar version, entitled 'The Bloody Gardener's Cruelty. or The Shepherd's D,wghter Betrayed', is in a chapbook . printed at Tewkesbury at the beginning of the century by S. Harrow. A reLlti\c of his, an old lady of ewer ninety, used to sing the baliad (see J. Han·ey Bloom's F olk Lore in Shakesreare Land), but it \\·as not noted from her, and I kno>vv of no other \·e rsion v-:ith tune.

5. The Bonny Banks of Yirgie-o Sun~ by "7\lr. and ~lrs. Kenneth ?\fonks at King's Co\ e. Bona\ i.;,t:J. Bay. The text is practically unaltered. I noted four \"::lriants of this ballad, and another is giYen in

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Greenleaf, No. 4. Five versions, without tune, are given in Child, No. 14, and a fragment, also without tune, was noted in Aberdeenshire about seventy ye~us ago (see Last Lem·es, p. 15). No other versions have to my kno'wvledge been recorded in Great Britain or on the American continent.

6. Earl Brand Sung by .f\.1r. Thomas Ghaney at Colliers, Conception Bay. The text is practically unaltered. This was the only version of the ballad that I noted in Newfoundland. Another, without tune, is giYen in Greenleaf, No. 2. For other variants, see Child, No. 7, and Appalachians, No. 4.

7. Lord Akeman Sung by ?vfr. \Vm. Holloway at King's Cove, Bonavista Bay. There are a few verbal alterations in the text. I noted four other versions of this ballad, all of them in 3/2 time. For other versions, see Child, No. 53, and Appalachians, No. 13.

8. The Lover's Ghost Sung by Mr. .t\-fatthew Aylward at Stock Cove, Bonavista Bay. A few lines of the text are taken from another version noted at Fortune Harbour, Notre Dame Bay, but it is otherwise unaltered. For another version see Joyce, No. 408. This ballad has a close connection \Vith 'The Grey Cock' (Child, No. 248). See note in .Alaine, p. 310.

9. She's Like the Swallow Sung by .t\1r. John Hunt at Dunsville, Placentia. The text is unaltered except that the repetition of the first stanza has been substituted for the fourth stanza which was irregular and unintelligible.

10. The Maiden's Lament Sung by Mr. James Sullivan at King's Cove, Bonavista Bay. I have omitted three corrupt stanzas, which tell of the intervention of the maiden's hard-hearted parents. Otherwise the text is practically unaltered.

Mr. Sullivan, an old man, sang this song with great feeling. He bad not sung it for many years.

11. Proud Nancy Sung by :N1r. Robert Morgan at Blow-me-down, Conception Bay. A few verbal alterations have been made in the text.

12. The l\1orning Dew Sung by Mrs. Sarah Mercer at Upper Island Cove, Conception Bay. Mrs. Mercer could only remember the first stanza and the last two lines of the second stanza. The remaining tv.-o lines are taken from another version noted at North River, Con­ception Bay. This is probably the same song as Joyce, No. 416.

13. The 'Vinter's Gone and Past Sung by Mrs. Elizabeth Farrell at Beau Bois, Placentia Bay. The last three stanzas, which were rather confused, have been omitted, othenvise the text is unaltered. For other versions, see Johnson's Scots Jo.fusical llfuseum, 3rd ed., 1853, i, p. 208 (1st cd., 1787-1803), and Joyce, No. 427.

14. The Cuckoo Sung by !vir. Joseph Jackman at Grole, Hermitage Bay. I noted only two stanzas. Stanza 3 is taken from an English version. For other versions, see Appalachians, No. 140.

15. Young Floro Sung by .t\lrs. Bridget Hall at North River, Conception Bay. Two sU:mzas have been omitted, but otherwise the text is practically unaltered. For other versions, 5ee F.S.S.J., i, 90.

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