| Author | Topic: Add: Bedlam City | |
| dmcg | Posted - 10 Mar 07 - 02:32 pm | |
Down by the side of Bedlam City Once I heard a maid complain, Making her moans and sad lamentations, "I've lost my joy and my only swain. Billy's the lad that I do admire Billy's the lad that I do adore Now for him his love's a-dying For fear she'd never see him more." "Don't you hear the cannons rattle? Don't you hear the trumpets sound? Billy is a-dying in the midst of battle, Dyingof his bleeding wound. Don't you see my Billy coming? Don't you see in yonder cloud? Billy with the angels round him, Billy in his bloody shroud!" Source: Broadwood, L, 1893, English County Songs, London, Leadenhall Press Notes: Words and tune from Mr F Scarlett Potter, Halford, Shipston-on-Stow Roud: 0968 (Search Roud index at VWML) | ||
| nutty | Posted - 11 Mar 07 - 10:11 pm | |
I've heard that the tune that is commonly sung today was put to the words by Nick Jones. Can anyone confirm this? | ||
| Malcolm Douglas |
Posted - 12 Mar 07 - 06:29 am | |
That was 'Bedlam Boys', not this song; and the tune was actually written by Dave Moran; though many people (including me) have got it wrong in the past. | ||