| Author | Topic: Add: Derwentwater's Farewell | |
| dmcg | Posted - 28 Sep 03 - 04:14 pm | |
Farewell to pleasant Dilston Hall, My father's ancient seat, A stranger now must call thee his, Which gars my heart to greet. Farewell each friendly will-known face. My heart has held so dear; My tenants now must leave their lands, Or hold their lives in fear. No more along the banks of Tyne I'll rove in autumn gray, No more I'll hear at early dawn The lav'rocks wake the day. Then fare thee well, brave Witherington, And Foster, ever true, Dear Shaftesbury and Errington Receive my last adieu. And fare thee well, George Collingwood, Since fate has put us down, If thou and I have lost our lives Or King has lost his crown. Farewell, farewell, my lady dear, Ill, Ill, thou counsell'dst me; I never more may see the babe That smiles upon your knee. And fare thee well, my bonny gray steed, That carried me aye so free; I wish I had been asleep in my bed Last time I mounted thee. The warning bell now bids me cease, My trouble's nearly o'er, You sun that rises from the sea Shall rise on me no more. Albeit that here in London town It is my fate to die, Oh! carry me to Northumberland, In my father's grave to lie. There chant my solemn requim In Hexham's holy towers; And let six maids from fair Tynedale Scatter my grave with flowers. And when the heads that wear a crown Shall be laid low like mine, Some honest hearts may then lament For Radcliffe's fallen line. Farewell to pleasant Dilston Hall, My father's ancient seat, A stranger now must call thee his, Which gars my heart to greet. Source: Bruce and Stokoe, Northumbrian Mistrelsy, Newcastle, 1882 Notes: Bruce and Stokoe wrote:
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| masato sakurai | Posted - 28 Sep 03 - 04:50 pm | |
The title in James Hogg's The Jacobite Relics of Scotland, second series (1821, pp. 30-31) is "Lord Derwentwater's Good-night." It is set to the tune of "Derwentwater" ("O Derwentwater's a bonny lad, ..."), which is almost identical with the one given in the database. Hogg said: "I had this song from my esteemed friend, Robert Surtees, esquire of Mainsforth. The copy was on an old half sheet of paper apparently in the hand-writing of a boarding-school Miss" (p. 269). | ||
| Malcolm Douglas |
Posted - 28 Sep 03 - 05:20 pm | |
Derwentwater's Farewell is number 2616 in the Roud Folk Song Index; the few examples listed all seem to derive from the same source. Separate, but dealing with the same subject, are Derwentwater (Roud 3158, printed in Bruce and Stokoe 75-5) and Lord Derwentwater (Child 208, Roud 89); which last has enjoyed rather more currency in oral tradition. Child (IV 116), incidentally, considered that Robert Surtees was the writer, as well as communicator, of Lord Derwentwater's Goodnight. Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music, 1966, 355-7, prints the music from Gambles's Commonplace Book (no. 274), and mentions that it also appears in The Dancing Master from 1686 as Never love thee more (a line from the refrain of the original song). Around 1643, James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, wrote a 5-stanza poem based on My dear and only love which was subsequently much-anthologised, and the tune appears in Scottish publications from around 1690. Broadside editions at : My dear and only love [Montrose's lynes or] A proper new ballad | ||