{"id":332,"date":"2014-12-10T15:14:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T15:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petercookie.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2016-01-08T22:33:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T22:33:28","slug":"waly-waly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/10\/waly-waly\/","title":{"rendered":"Waly Waly"},"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;\">72.99.10<\/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: \"72.99.10\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zc3NhLmxsYy5lZC5hYy51ay93aGFsc2F5YW5zL3dwLWNvbnRlbnQvdXBsb2Fkcy9zaXRlcy8yLzIwMTUvMDEvNzIuOTkuMTAubXAz\", 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 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 SA1972.99.10<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This lament of which John sings just three verses, has a long history and over 127 versions of it have been published, the earliest being in Ramsay\u2019s <i>Tea Table Miscellany 1724\u00a0 <\/i>(vol. 2, p. 170<i>)\u00a0<\/i> and Thomson\u2019s <i>Orpheus Caledonius <\/i>(vol. 1, p. 71).\u00a0 Various verses have migrated to other songs, though all of them tend to be love laments and John&#8217;s third verse can be found in a number. \u00a0 His fine tune somewhat resembles\u00a0the well known English version collected by Cecil Sharp and printed in\u00a0 <i>Folk Songs from Somerset<\/i> (1907) but it is cast in minor sounding mode: it is quite unlike the florid air the air printed in most Scottish collections.\u00a0 Steve Roud cites a number of related songs containing some of John&#8217;s verses: e.g. Roud no 87, 6289 and 18829. Three other verses that Sharp collected are appended below John\u2019s version.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Down in yon meadows fresh and gay<br \/>\n<\/em><em>We were plucking flooers there during the day;<br \/>\n<\/em><em>We were plucking flooers both red and blue,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>And little knew I what love could do.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Love is planted there it grows,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>It buds and blooms like any rose;<br \/>\n<\/em><em>It\u2019s got such a sweet and fragrant smell<br \/>\n<\/em><em>That no flooer on earth could it excel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>I leant my back up against an oak<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Thinking it was a trusty tree,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>But it first it bent and then it broke<br \/>\n<\/em><em>And so did my false love to me.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em>I put my hand into the bush<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Thinking the sweetest flower to find,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>I pricked my finger to the bone<br \/>\n<\/em><em>And leaved the sweetest flower alone.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em>There is a ship sailing on the sea<br \/>\n<\/em><em>But it&#8217;s loaded so deep as deep can be,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>But not so deep as in love I am,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>I care not whether I sink or swim.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em>Since my love&#8217;s dead and gone to rest<br \/>\n<\/em><em>I&#8217;ll think on her who I love best.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>I&#8217;ve sewed her up in flannel strong,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Have another now she&#8217;s dead and gone.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/10\/waly-waly\/\">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":[7,36],"tags":[57,83,158],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-hughson","category-q-z","tag-cecil-sharp","tag-false-love","tag-the-water-is-wide"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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