| Author | Topic: Add: Flash Company | |
| dmcg | Posted - 01 Apr 03 - 01:06 pm | |
Flash Company First I loved William and then I loved John, But now I love Thomas, he's a clever young man. With his white cotton stockings and his high ankled shoes, He wears a velvet jacket, like a flash lad he goes. It's fiddling and dancing was all his delight, And keeping flash company has ruined him quite, Has ruined him quite and a great many more, If he hadn't kept flash company he had never been so poor. Oh, take this yellow handkerchief in remebrance of me, And wear it all round your neck when in flash company. Dry up your briny tears and don't look so sad, There's plenty more flash girls all wish to be had. Source: Purslow, F, (1968), The Wanton Seed, EDFS, London Notes: Frank Purslow wrote:
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| masato sakurai | Posted - 01 Apr 03 - 03:00 pm | |
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads has one version: Flash Company Edited By masato sakurai - 01/04/2003 15:05:21 | ||
| Malcolm Douglas |
Posted - 01 Apr 03 - 03:06 pm | |
Roud 954 Also found as The Yellow Handkerchief, I Once Loved a Young Man, and so on. Mainly from Southern English tradition, though reported also in the USA and Canada. Broadside examples at Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads: Flash Company The Wandering Girl, or the Bud of a Rose The tunes in Petrie which Purslow refers to are as follows: X:1 T:222: The Green Bushes B:Stanford-Petrie, Complete Collection of Irish Music, 1903. S:"Set by Mr Joyce from J. Martin, August 1854." N:Untitled in S-P. L:1/8 Q:1/4=100 M:3/4 K:F C2|F2 A2 F2|E3/2F/ GA B2|c2 dc GF|E4 CD/E/|F2 A2 F2| EF GA B2|c2 ec d=B|c4 AB|c2 A2 f2|d2 c2 d/c/A/G/| F2 FG A3/2F/|D4 CD/F/|F2 A2 GF|EF G2 AB|c2 dB G3/2E/|F4|] X:2 T:223: An cumhain leatsa an oidhche �ºd? T:Do you remember that night? B:Stanford-Petrie, Complete Collection of Irish Music, 1903. S:"Set from M. Dineen by Mr Joyce." N:Untitled in S-P. L:1/8 Q:1/4=100 M:3/4 K:F CD/E/|F2 F2 GF|E2 F2 (3GAB|c2 BG FG|E2 C2 (3CDE| F2 F2 GF|E2 F2 (3GAB|c2 BG FG|F4 (3GAB|c2 c2 {c}BA|B2 B2 cB| A2 G2 FG|E2 C2 (3CDE|F2 F2 GF|E2 F2 (3GAB|c2 BA F3/{A}2G/|F4|] Stanford omitted a lot of the tune titles; they are here restored from the tables in Donal O'Sullivan's article, The Petrie Collections of Irish Folk Music (Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, vol.5 no.1, 1946). O'Neill also prints a related Green Bushes air: X: 3 T: THE GREEN BUSHES T: Na tomanaidhe glais B: O'Neill's 331 M: 3/4 L: 1/8 Z: 1999 by John Chambers N: "Slow" F:http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/oneills/1850/X/0331_jc.abc K:A EE | A2 c2 A2 | (G>A) (Bc) d2 | e2 fd B>A | G4 ((3EFG) | A2 c2 A2 | (GABc) d2 | e2 (ge) (f^d) | e4 (cd) || | e2 c2 aa | (f2 e2) (f/e/c/B/) | A2 (AB c>A) | F4 ((3EFG) | A2 c2 A2 | (GA) B2 (cd) | e2 (fd) B>G | A2- Az || Edited By Malcolm Douglas - 01/04/2003 16:38:20 | ||
| dmcg | Posted - 02 Apr 03 - 01:02 pm | |
The two Petrie ABC files above have been added here and here. The related Green Bushes tune is here. Edited By dmcg - 02/04/2003 13:42:19 | ||
| Phil Taylor | Posted - 02 Apr 03 - 06:57 pm | |
There's an error in the last bar of the abc for " An cumhain leatsa an oidhche �ºd?". F3/{A}2G/ should probably read F3/{A}G/ | ||
| dmcg | Posted - 02 Apr 03 - 07:02 pm | |
Tune changed in line with Phil suggestion. | ||
| Malcolm Douglas |
Posted - 02 Apr 03 - 07:53 pm | |
Thanks for spotting that. Don't know where that "2" came from! | ||