{"id":399,"date":"2014-12-11T11:36:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T11:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petercookie.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2016-04-14T11:33:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T11:33:11","slug":"fate-of-franklin-the-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/11\/fate-of-franklin-the-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fate of Franklin, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mp3jWrap_0\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  sdl_right\" style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_0\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_0\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_0\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">74.13.8<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:12.6px;\" id=\"statusMI_0\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_0\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [\n\t{ name: \"74.13.8\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zc3NhLmxsYy5lZC5hYy51ay93aGFsc2F5YW5zL3dwLWNvbnRlbnQvdXBsb2Fkcy9zaXRlcy8yLzIwMTUvMDEvNzQuMTMuOC5tcDM=\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script>\n\n<script>MP3jPLAYERS[0] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:true, vol:100, height:'' };<\/script>\n<p><b>John Hughson \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><em>\u00a0[Lady Franklin&#8217;s Lament]<\/em><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 SA1974.13.8<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Writing of this ballad in\u00a0<i>Naval Songs and Ballads<\/i>\u00a0(1898),\u00a0 Professor C. H. Firth commented somewhat disparagingly:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u201cThe search for the North-West Passage, namely the voyage of Sir John Franklin, and the long continued efforts to discover his fate also attracted the attention of writers of street ballads but neither\u00a0<i>Lady Fanklin\u2019s Lament<\/i>\u00a0nor the\u00a0\u00a0<i>Lament on the Fate of Sir John Franklin<\/i>\u00a0and his crew deserve reprinting.\u00a0 The last was written in 1860; ten years later the old street ballads practically became extinct\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Firth\u00a0didn\u2019t count on the tenacity with which songs, which had a special resonance for some occupations, might continue to be sung a whole century\u00a0later.\u00a0 In the 1970s many Shetlanders had older relatives who had told them about their whaling experiences in the icy waters of Greenland and South Georgia. Possibly there were some Shetlanders among the crew of Sir John Franklin\u2019s three ships, for they made their last call for supplies in Orkney before heading off to the north\u2013west, never to return. Both <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/09\/fate-of-franklin-the\/\">Andrew Poleson<\/a> <\/strong>and \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/08\/fate-of-franklin-the-or-lady-franklins-lament\/\">Willie Williamson\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/strong> (who sang more verses than Andrew and John) have also contributed this ballad.\u00a0\u00a0 Roud index no. 437.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><i>It\u2019s seven long years since the ship of fame<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Sailed with my husband across the main<br \/>\n<\/i><i>With a hundred seamen of courage stout<br \/>\n<\/i><i>The nor-west passage to find out.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><i>The nor-west passage near the pole,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Where bright lightnings flash and deep thunders roll,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>It\u2019s more than any man can do<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Without undaunted courage true.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><i>As we did sail along the deep<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Snugly in my hammock I lay asleep;<br \/>\n<\/i><i>I dreamed a dream I fear was true<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Concerning Franklin and his bold crew.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><i>In Baffin\u2019s bay where the whale flesh blow<br \/>\n<\/i><i>The fate of Franklin no man can know,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>He left his home like many more,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>He left his home to return no more.<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/11\/fate-of-franklin-the-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,34],"tags":[76,123,139,149],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-hughson","category-a-h","tag-disaster","tag-north-west-passage","tag-sea","tag-sir-john-franklin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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