Martin Carthy's version transcribed by Garry Gillard and Reinhard Zierke. LA SÉRIE ENCHANTÉE (FRENCH SELECTIONS). 2x) By coaxing, persuading, she entered the boat And quickly he rowed her on board o Our captain, he smiled and spat out his chew Saying "Fair you well sorrow and care and care. " An old piece from Scotland or Ireland, its actual origin has been lost to time. She sat herself down in his cabin below. Lovely on the Water, Topic 12TS 216, LP (1972), trk# A. SYMBOLS: - Asterisk (*) = new measure, play same chord. Blondahl, Omar (Sagebrush Sam). Bronson (43), "The Broomfield Hill" -- the appendix includes 6 versions (#25-#30) which are this song. Creighton-SNewBrunswick 49, "The Sea Captain" (1 text, 1 tune). He noted: As the song comes to us, it is the bouncing ballad of a girl too smart for a lecherous sea captain. This young captain did cry, "If I can't have that maid on the shore, the shore, This captain had silver and this captain had gold, This captain had fine costly ware-o. Rode away back to the shore o. o the men they were mad yes the men they were sad.
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Lyle-Crawfurd2 127, "The Maid on the Shore" (1 text). Sandra kept him company in the studio and wrote some sleeve notes. Her voice was so fair and so clear-o. Getting Folk Out of the Country, Bear Family BF 15008, LP (198? 2x) "Oh were me men crazy, or were they all drunk? The Askew Sisters sang The Maid on the Shore in 2014 on their RootBeat CD In the Air or the Earth. Of gold, Now the men, they were mad, yet the men they were sad. In this folk song, a young woman is taken on board a ship against her will, but tricks the sailors by singing them to sleep and then robs them blind! Recordings & Info 43 Appendix. The night being so still and the water so calm.
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Eliza Carthy learned The Maid on the Shore from Cyril Tawney's CD and recorded it with the Ratcatchers (Jon Boden, Ben Ivitsky, and John Spiers) for her 2005 album Rough Music. Record: Stan Rogers, Fogarty's Cove. For I've grown so weary of my maidenhead. RECORDINGS: Frankie Armstrong, "The Maid on the Shore" (on BirdBush2, Armstrong1). But a scrap of the ballad as sung in Ireland hints at something sinister behind the gay recital. That he intends to spend the night with her, and then pass her over. Made well known in folk circle by the singing of Stan Rogers on his 1976 album "Fogarty's Cove, " it is in fact not one composed by that worthy singer; it dates to a much early time and while some people claim that it is an old Irish folk song, it is in fact a song that the best research to date shows its origins in Newfoundland and THEN it made its way to the British Isles. If she'd please take a sail from the shore, the shore, If she'd please take a sail from the shore-O. So the song the girl sang may once have been the song Homer spoke of, with which the strange bird-women beguiled unwary seamen, and the sailor's deep sleep may have been, in earlier sets of the ballad, the sleep of death. And the weather be steady and fair o. Niamh Parsons sang The Maid on the Shore in 1999 on her Green Linnet album Blackbirds & Thrushes. Lomax-FSNA 73, "The Maid on the Shore" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #29}. 'I shall die, I shall die! '
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"It's just what I've been waiting for-o: As I walked all alone on me rocky old shore, She sat herself down in the stern of the ship. "I'll die, I'll die, " this captain did cry, If I can't have that maid who walks on the shore, If I can't have that maid on the shore. PROFUNDO - (MEN'S CHOIR). Kerr, Sandra and Nancy. Well you should have learned it before o. i sang you to sleep and i robbed you oh well.
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Woman on the coastline they are passing. Wells, Evelyn Kendrick (ed. ) Variations - click chord images.
After many persuasions they brought her on board. CHORDS (Number System): - Example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. I have lots of silver I have lots of gold. West, Hedy; and Bill Clifton. Lloyd, A. L. & Isabel Arete de Ramon y Rivera (eds. ) Newmarket-on-Fergus. Maiden did cry, Now she robbed them of wealth, and she robbed them. She sand so sweet, gentile and complete, She sang all the sea men to sleep, She sang all the sea men to sleep. This song is full of references to nature and the elements, and the age-old association of women with the moon also seems to run through it. As she sat all alone on the shore, She sat all alone on the shore. Don't I wish that I had her once more.