Some time between 1907 and 1911 George Butterworth (see The Full English) recorded in Sussex a text with four verses that was clearly derived from that broadside (GB/4/59, at the Full English) although he obviously regarded it as a variant of "Waly, Waly": In 1909 George Gardiner collected a tune with one verse from one Thomas Bulbeck, also from Sussex (GG/1/21/1385, at The Full English): The same year Herbert Hughes published in the first volume of his  Irish Country Songs (p. 68-9) a "fragment of an old song" from County Derry that is clearly a very mutilated relic of the "Unfortunate Swain". Schoonerfare sang "The Water is Wide" on their 2005 album, titled And Both Shall Row. It is bounded by Japan and Sakhalin Island to the east and by Russia and Korea on the Asian mainland to the west. This is another case where the broadsides served as a conduit for the survival of an old verse. If this information is correct it would mean that this song had already existed in Scotland sometime before it was printed for the very first time around 1750 ("In Yon Garden", No. The tune is completely different and for some reason the verse with the "cockle shells" has returned: "Oh Waly, Waly" survived into the 20th century and was also recorded during the Folk Revival era, for example by Hermes Nye (Early English Ballads From The Percy And Child Collections, 1957, Folkways FW 02305), by Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl (Two-Way Trip, 1961, Folkways FW 08755) and  by John Jacob Niles whose eccentric version was first released in 1953 on American Folk Love Songs to Dulcimer Accompaniment (Boone-Tolliver BTR-22, 10" LP) and then in 1959 on An Evening With John Jacob Niles (Tradition TLP1036, available at amazon.co.uk). 1923, pp. For example it  became a refrain in a "simple ditty with a pleasant air" called "Love It Is Easing" that was noted by British collector Alfred Williams  in. In fact the melodies of versions A and C - and D  should also be mentioned  -  of "Lord Thomas" (Sharp 1917, No.16, pp. To enjoy Prime Music, go to Your Music Library and transfer your account to Amazon.com (US). Nor blawing snaws (snow) inclemency, St. Helens is about 25 miles from Manchester and according to the Book Trade Index one Daniel Liptrot was busy there as a printer in 1841. At least Sharp got some credit although he of course had never collected the song in the USA: The song can also be found on Pernell Roberts'  Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies (1963, see allmusic.com). Benjamin Britten used the melody and verses of The Water is Wide for his arrangement—which does not have the O Waly, Waly verse, yet is titled Waly, Waly. And both shall row, my love and I. Being a Collection of Songs [...], Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London, [1770?] The wide expanse of water is choked up by numerous great mudbanks,which the inhabitants call Cangrejales, or crabberies, from thenumber of small crabs. 3, No. One  ("I set my foot against an oak...") was cribbed from "Oh Waly, Waly". The Water Is Wide is a great book. Dating back to the 1700s, the Scottish folk song The Water is Wide was initially known as O Waly, Waly. Quite a lot of different imprints were used for the Evans family's publications but this particular one can be found on many song-sheets and some of them are even exactly dateable. He even identified one of the two broadside ballads in question. 6, 1803, Maud Karpeles (ed. The Two Worlds album released by jazz musicians Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin in 2000 included a performance of "The Water is Wide" combined with "Shenandoah" sung by the soprano Renée Fleming. The water is wide, I cannot cross over, And neither have I wings to fly, Give me a boat that can carry two, And both shall row, my love and I. The Water Is Wide is a 1972 memoir by Pat Conroy and is based on his work as a teacher on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, which is called Yamacraw Island in the book.The book is sometimes identified as nonfiction and other times identified as a novel.. Yamacraw is a poor island lacking bridges and having little infrastructure. & M.Robertson, Glasgow 1799 (ESTC, Four copies of another edition called "The Maid's Complaint" - also with eight instead of nine verses - can be found among the, By all accounts "The Unfortunate Swain" remained popular for considerable time. And sometimes an "old" song is not that old and sometimes a Folklorist had to produce a "Folk song" himself, especially if he wasn't satisfied with what he had found among the "Folk". At first only classical composers took interest and brought out arrangements for solo singers or choirs, for example  Herbert William Pierce in 1931, Robert Chignell in 1935 or Reginald Redman in 1943: The best known was of course Benjamin Britten's version that he first published in 1947 in his Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. I am inclined to think that they were all applied to the song at a later point,  perhaps by singers who had learned the text from a broadside or chapbook. Nor have I Wings This was in fact an abbreviated version of the old "Peggy Gordon" with some minor changes but the three verses can also be traced back to the first edition of the British broadside. Instead we get seven additional quatrains (here pp. (ESTC, The Unfortunate Swain. Charlotte Church, the Welsh child soprano, recorded a popularised rendition of this song on her 2001 album Enchantment. Cecil Sharp's "Oh Waly, Waly" is the starting-point for the development of the modern "The Water Is Wide". Both are about love growing cold with the time and offer a similar message although the new variant sounds a little more drastic. The melody, by the way, is very different different from all the others we have come across so far: In all these more or less fragmentary versions one can find a combination of verses that is - to my knowledge - only known from "The Unfortunate Swain" and its off-springs. Consequently, each verse in the modern song may not have been originally composed in the context of its surrounding verses nor be consistent in theme. Being the second part of The Beggar's opera, 1729, Act 1, Air VII, here p. 19 from an edition published London 1922, source: "Waly,Waly", from William McGibbon, A Collection of Scots Tunes [...] With some Additions by Robert Bremner, London [1768], Book III, p.87, source of image: pdf-file downloaded from IMSLP. : 1, Waly waly up the bank 2, The ploughman laddie 3, Jack of all trades. In The Water Gap – The State of the World's Water 2018 we reveal the countries where people are struggling most for clean water, highlight countries that have made the most progress, and call on governments to address the injustice of the water crisis. Already in 1803 a fragmentary version consisting of only three verses but including a tune was published by James Johnson in the sixth volume of his Scots Musical Museum. It was published regularly – though sometimes with different titles - for at least 70 years. One was part of the ballad "The Seamans Leave Taken Of His Sweetest Margery" (first printed ca. Folk Songs Of Devon And Cornwall Collected From The Mouth Of The People, New & Revised Edition Under The Musical Editorship of Cecil J. In fact three of them are variants of verses 5, 6 and 7 from the broadside text while the fourth is partly related to another verse from "Waly, Waly". This pool holds a maximum of 18,560 gallons of water. She's loaded deep, as deep can be. It has seen considerable popularity through to the 21st century. It can be found as "Picking Lilies" in some chapbooks from the last two decades of the 18th century. 181/2) - collected 1914 in Nebraska -  shows a quasi-feminist approach: In the same collection we can find a version of "My Blue-eyed Boy" from Nebraska (ca. ... How many gallons of water are in a 27' wide and 52-inch deep round pool? Another version - this time only a text without a tune - was included by Allan Ramsay in the second volume of his immensely influential Tea-Table Miscellany. 35 A, p. 171, "Waly, Waly (Down In The Meadows)", sung by James Thomas (89), Somerset, 1906, collected by Cecil Sharp, from Karpeles, Sharp Collection, No. It consists of the same four verses as the version from Newcastle published in, The third fragment (text B) was taken down from "Mary Sacherley [i. e. Sally Satterley], aged 75 [...] daughter of an old singing moor man", a "famous singer on Dartmoor". J. W. Allen (p. 163 & 171) notes that "a similar tune to this occurs in a version of 'Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor" and again in a version of [...] 'Young Hunting', from the Appalachians", all collected by Cecil Sharp in 1916. This "New Song much in Request" was apparently published circa 1701 (available at NLS: The Word On The Street; see also Child, p. 93 and p. 105, see also Allen, p. 167): The exact relationship between the two songs is not clear. From point A which is straight across the river from point C, the biologist walks downstream 70 feet to Point B and sights to point C. From this sighting, it … Interestingly five of the seven additional stanzas from Ramsay's text can also be found in other songs. The earliest version of the last verse of looks a little bit different from the one used for "The Water Is Wide": According to Robert Chambers (1829, p. 134) "troly, loly" was common as a "burden [...] of songs [...] during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries". The song was reissued two years later by another publisher, Novello & Co. , as sheet music in the series "School Songs". Today The Water Is Wide" is firmly established as an "old Folk song". Deep End = 10 ft … They regularly recycled verses for "new" texts. Here it was still called  "Waly, Waly". That will carry two The verse with the "cockle shells" is missing. This song was first printed in 1725/6 in two groundbreaking publications. No matter what, love, you'll stay with me, But the text in the Personal Copy and also in the Fair Copy Manuscript (see SBG/3/1/422 ) had already been repaired by Baring-Gould. But in fact he had created it anew by collating bits and pieces from different field-recordings. His arrangement is still regularly performed by classical singers. There is a ship and she sails the sea. The text remained more or less stable, there were only minor changes as well as occasional attempts at repairing some of its flaws (see the pdf-file with all available printed variants). Joan Baez included it in 1964 in her Songbook, but without any credit to Seeger or Sharp. 19, ESTC T186186, available at ECCO). These notes are somewhat misleading. A live recording from the early 60s is available on Very Early Joan (see JoanBaez.com) released in 1982. The Water Is Wide The Water Is Wide (Full Flex - for any combination of instruments) Traditional Scottish/arr. But my love's heart grown cauld to me. major key tonality. It was available in sophisticated arrangements, for example in William Napier's, Not at least antiquarian Joseph Ritson included the tune and the text in his, At this time "Oh Waly, Waly" was established as an "old Scottish ballad". Watch trailers & learn more. Of course it is also possible that the writers of both pieces have borrowed these verses from another undocumented older song. 3, No. Another offspring of "I'm Often Drunk" was published in 1900 in the Journal of the Folk-Song Society. 'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs'); "The Water Is Wide"The History Of A "Folksong"(revised July 2012), "The Water Is Wide" is one of the most popular "Folk songs" today, not at least because of its beautiful tune. Why were so-called "floating verses" so important for the production of both broadside ballads and "Folk songs"? Best Overall: Iron Flask Wide Mouth Water Bottle at Amazon "This water bottle is a fantastic all-rounder, with double-wall insulation that stays sweat-free." > Louis Killen > Songs > The Water Is Wide > Steeleye Span > Songs > The Water Is Wide > June Tabor > Songs > The Water Is Wide The Water Is Wide / The Bonny Boat [ Roud 87; Child 204; Ballad Index C204, K149; VWML CJS2/9/1027; Bodleian Roud 87; trad.] Round Pool The formula for the area of a circle is "pi x r 2 " where "r" is the radius of the circle. But it  seems that Ramsay's text itself had very little or even no influence on oral tradition even though it had been printed and reprinted so often. Assume the pool is full of water. When the Folklorists started collecting they encountered these relics just around every corner. A chapbook called "Nelson's Wreath, Or British Glory" with "A new song on Lord Nelson's victory at Copenhagen" (Curzon b.24(99), all at BBO) is dated as from "1801- 1805". Sam Hinton's version on "The Wandering Folk Song" (1966, Folkways FW 02401, see the liner notes, p. 2) is one of the few that was taken directly from Cecil Sharp. They were published in academic collections or in songbooks for popular consumption and  performed, published and recorded by Folk revivalists. The captain's frolic. I am inclined to think that "I'm Often Drunk" was first published around 1819 or 1820. It looks like this: 3.14 × r 2 × D × 7.5 = V (in gallons) But before you can solve that equation, you need to find the radius of the pool. across the sea One  ("I set my foot against an oak...") was cribbed from "Oh Waly, Waly". Already in the 1820s and early 1830s  a song called "Peggy Gordon" was published on American song-sheets: in New York and in Boston (available at the libraries of Brown University, RI and the New York Historical Society, here quoted from Mudcat Discussion Board, posted by user Taconicus on 23.12.2010): Here we find three verses known from the longer version of "I'm Often Drunk" including the one starting with "the seas are deep, and I cannot wade them [...]". How did the anonymous writers of broadside ballads produce their texts? The text is very similar to the printed versions and one may assume that he had a broadside or a chapbook with that song at hand. 1780; ESTC, But the text of "Oh Waly, Waly" also found a place in the most important antiquarian collections of that time: Thomas Percy's, Towards the end of the century the song was published in all major collections of Scottish songs. Arranged for Baritone Solo and Male Chorus by H. Pierce, London,  J. Two can be found in Martin Parker's "The Distressed Virgin" (first printed 1633, ESTC S112529, available at EEBO; see also Douce Ballads 1(59a), between 1663 and 1674, at BBO; Pepys 3.313, ca. My friend and I-i-I, (repeat twice in parts with one part higher than the other and then sing in round with group two beginning to sing at the word 'Nor'), The water is wide Their song included variants of two verses known from the old Scottish ballad but otherwise the rest of the text and the tune were completely different. A. Fuller Mailtland, Report of the Second Meeting of the Folk-Song Society, in: Journal of, John Glen, Early Scottish Melodies, Edinburgh 1900 (available at, George F. Graham, The Popular Songs of Scotland with Their Appropriate Melodies, 1856, new edition Edinburgh 1887 (available at, The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection, Vol. I presume Lomax - like Sharp with his composite text - tried to "reassemble" a "Folk"-version of  "Waly, Waly". ), The Scots Musical Museum, Vol. A "Folk song" is usually the result of a complicated process and the input of the professional ballad writers and the professional Folklorists is often much greater than what the real "Folk" has contributed. They often installed in homes that have a crawlspace instead of a basement or inside of a closet inside the home or the garage or attic. Tune Farewel You Flower Of False Deceit" (ca. The lyrics vary from period to period and from singer to singer. Sharp. For some reason Sharp's song had a slow start. 1795, Madden Ballads 2-1082, ESTC T198961): In 1905 Folklore collector H. E. D. Hammond noted a song from Jacob Baker in Dorset (Broadwood et al. Low down in the Broom. 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