Like will I-go, love shall We sit, Like will I-go various other method
W]hy can you name so it a good looking bed where nothing lays on but a slave maid a slave maid altho’ she be happy’s the man you to enjoyeth thee
My] love’s on the State out of Armagh and i me personally a good way off Oh if i got her from the County of down I would rather then ten thousand pound
My like is sick and you will wish pass away and you will a great sorry guy that big date are We however now this new weaver enjoyes his satisfaction and you may marry’d in order to thee slave lass a slave lass though she become happy’s the person you to enjoyeth shee
Brand new broadside ballad “Usually this new Weaver and you can Foundation the brand new Chambermaid” Rawlinson range, Bodleian, and also the Pepys Ballads , III, 132, 1987, is posted from the Phillip Brooksby, 1671-1685 (their address up coming change). The track cited on broadside was “In order to a fantastic the tune; Otherwise, I am a weaver because of the my personal trading. Or, I am just likely, &c,”. Not one ones music are recognized.
Roy Palmer images numerous alternatives associated with track within his post ‘The Weaver into the Love’, Folk music Record , 1977, but I really don’t believe the guy place anything to one another truthfully
Right now i have merely 18th century duplicates off “Have a tendency to the newest Weaver” (Holloway and you will Black’s Afterwards English Broadside Ballads , We, #123, “The fresh new Weaver along with his lover” (Palmer’s D text message), and you may “#38 “The newest Fair Maid’s need to know their particular A b c” (Palmer’s C text message, given just below). (more…)