| Author | Topic: Add: Death of Queen jane | |
| dmcg | Posted - 30 Oct 02 - 05:00 pm | |
Death of Queen Jane, The Queen Jane was in labour For six days or more Till her women got tired And wished it were o'er Good women, good women, Good women, if you be Will you send for King Henry For King Henry I must see King Henry was a-sent for, King Henry did come home For to meet with Queen Jane My love your eyes do look so dim King Henry, King Henry, King Henry if you be, If you have my right side open'd You will find my dear baby. Queen Jane, my love, Queen jane, my love, Such a thing was never known, If you have your right side open'd You will lose your dear baby. Will you build your love a castle And lie down so deep For to bury my body And christen my dear baby. King Henry went mourning And so did his men And so did his dear baby For Queen Jane did dien. How deep was the mourning How wide were the bands, How yellow, yellow were the flamboys They carried in their hands. There was fiddling, there was dancing On the day the babe was born While the royal Queen Jane beloved Lay cold as a stone. Source: One Hundred English Folksongs, Ed C Sharp, ISBN 0-486-23192-5 Notes: Cecil Sharp wrote:
Child: 170 Database entry is here | ||
| Malcolm Douglas |
Posted - 30 Oct 02 - 05:28 pm | |
Roud 170. This set was noted from Mrs. Sweet at Somerton, Somerset, in August 1906. She was aged 61 at the time. Some editorial changes have been made, mostly for the sake of coherence. One verse has been omitted; I quote here just Mrs. Sweet's final three: And how deep was the mourning, How wide was the bands, How yellow was the flower, my boys, She carried in her hands. How she hold it, how she rumpled it, How she hold it in her hand, Saying: The flower of old England Shall never detain me long. There was a fiddling, there was dancing The day the babe was born; To see that Queen Jane, my love, Lying cold as a stone. (Cecil Sharp's Collection of Folk Songs, ed. Maud Karpeles, 1974) Probably you should emend the .abc to show a triplet sign in the 5th bar. | ||
| dmcg | Posted - 30 Oct 02 - 06:37 pm | |
Database updated. Those triplets are one thing my software has trouble with (it puts out some horrendous ABC which is, I think, technically correct but is almost incomprehensible and our software doesn't recognise it). Please alert me to any triplet problem you see elsewhere. Edited By dmcg - 10/30/2002 6:52:50 PM | ||